LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Part of the Systems Information Management System (SIMS) Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
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The Gale of the 19th May, 1863
THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
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Bronze Medal award
Portrush Mechanic Anthony Chambers is to be awarded the RNLI’s Bronze Medal for Gallantry, for his part in saving the lives of two boys who got trapped in a cave with the tide rising.
Anthony risked his life swimming in...
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The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
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Hon Secretaries' Courses Under Way
WALES AND THE WEST COUNTRY S6t the ball rolling in June when around a dozen station honorary secretaries from those areas attended the first training course aimed specifically at their role within the RNLI.
Training officer...
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Hunter Trials In the Garden of Mrs Duncan President of Troon Ladies' Guild Photograph By Courtesy of Douglas Studio
Hunter trials in the garden of Mrs Duncan, president of Troon ladies' guild. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Douglas Studio. - View image in PDF
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Saved from a shipwreck
This photograph captures the moment that our Kinsale and Courtmacsherry Harbour lifeboat volunteers saved 30 people from a sinking training vessel off the Cork coast
Both lifeboat crews were...
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The Duke of Edinburgh at the Lizard-Cadgwith
The lift is an unusual fixture of the new life-boat station. - View image in PDF
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Disaster at Arbroath
ON the night of the 26th of October, 1953, the Arbroath life-boat Robert Lindsay and the Anstruther life-boat James and Ruby Jackson were both launched in answer to distress rockets which had been seen three miles east of...
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