LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
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Covering the Atlantic Coast
The West coast of Ireland saw a dramatic increase in its number of lifeboats over the last decade-and-a-half - representing the largest number of new stations to be established in such a short space of time this century. Nicholas Leach,...
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Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
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Five Alive
PAGe tItLe RescUe FIVe ALIVe two miles from land, a group of kayakers was at the mercy of gale force offshore winds. How could they summon help and how long could they stay afloat? mairéad Dwane reports tHe DetAIL insHORe LiFeBOat B-789...
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Celia's supporting role
A stellar acting career and a passion for the sea unite in Celia Imrie’s latest role – and thoughts of lifeboats are never far away
As someone who regularly takes the ferry journey from...
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Drama in the dark
On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding
Helmsman...
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Holiday shock
When a rip current dragged a pregnant woman out to sea, Wicklow lifeboat volunteers sprang into action – and discovered she was not the only person with her life in danger
Wicklow’s inshore and...
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Flotilla Special
International Gathering The week of midsummer 1999 will be remembered for a very long time by thousands of lifeboat people from the UK and Republic of Ireland and right around the world The unprecedented spectacle of the lifeboat sail-past...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
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Commercial Shipping: Taking Off the Crew
AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL last May the gold medal for outstanding gallantry was presented to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port, Guernsey, and the silver medal to Coxswain/Mechanic Alexander ' Alastair' Gilchrist of...
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