LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 February 1994 show that during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,397 times (an average of 14 launches a day) 1,274 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3 a day) Nearly 4% of all...
Category: Articles
A Boat from North Monarch
Moelfre, Anglesey. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boat from the tanker North Monarch of Monrovia had broken down a mile to the north-east. At 9.10, when the...
From the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales
IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
Category: Correspondence
(Above) Last December the 52Ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on Temporary Duty at Yarmouth Isle of Wight Rendezvoused In the Solent With Air Commodore Brian Mac
(above) Last December the 52ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on temporary duty at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, rendezvoused in the Solent with Air Commodore Brian Macnamuru's yacht, Tamare, to pick up festive fare and deliver it to the Needles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (176)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE seventh Christmas party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 20th December at the Bromley Public Hall.
Four days before this a tea...
Category: Articles
Monica
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 11.15 on the night of the 7th of August, 1958, a message was received that a motor launch had broken down with engine trouble one mile west of Hook lighthouse. The life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out at...
One of the Highlights of the Splendid 150th Anniversary Banquet In the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on October 11 1974 Was a Piccolo Solo By Ban
One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Treasure Ship In All Her Pride
The schooner Lamorna ready to sail for the South China Seas in search of Captain Kidd's treasure. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bradford Editions
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