LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Where Do We Go from Here?
RNLI lifeboats have a nominal working life of some 20 years, so when the Institution's current slipway-launched lifeboats reach the end of their twodecades of work in 2003 there will be an obvious need to replace them - but what should...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1876
Jan. 6.—Voted 37. to 6 men of Ballyetherland, Co. Donegal, for saving 6 other men whose boat had been destroyed by a whale off St. John's Point, on the 3rd November.
Also 31. to 5 men for rescuing 2 others from a...
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Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight—2nd April.
An aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea, but no machine was found or reported missing.— Rewards, £7 16s..
A Boat
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 8th July. A boat containing four boys had been reported missing, but later it was reported that they had been found.— Rewards, £11 10s..
Bookshelf
The History of the Rhyl Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This is the second edition of Jeff Morris's account of the lifeboats and services in this wellknown North Wales resort.
As usual the...
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In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
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Grietje
THREE LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL Port Erin, Port St. Mary, and Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.15 on the morning of the 5th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Port St. Mary life-boat station that a vessel...
Impulsion (1)
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...