LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Contents RNLI News. 183 Volume XLIX Number 492 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLI.
Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Lifeboat Services.
Annual General Meeting and presentation of awards...
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Peterhead:
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil... - View image in PDF
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A Minesweeper
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY MINESWEEPER AGROUND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.2 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a minesweeper had been reported ashore near St. Catherine's Point. There...
A Small Motor Boat
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th August, 1938.
A small motor boat had been reported missing. The life-boat, with the honorary secretary, Lieut.-Commander T. le B. Pirouet, on board, searched all night, and then put into Gorey,...
Here and There
Round Table 50th anniversary appeal At their National Conference held at Blackpool in May, Round Table delegates from all over Britain and Ireland voted to raise funds for a Waveney lifeboat. The appeal is to mark the 50th anniversary of the...
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Lombard
Lombard Marine Finance Marine finance doesn't have to be complicated. Lombard's new Planned Marine Mortgage has been developed to keep the formalities remarkably simple.
You won't have to wade through wave after...
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Jumping for joy
Fearless RNLI supporters jumped into the record books in June when they smashed the record for the most tandem skydives in one day.
On Saturday 14 June, 323 fundraisers around the UK jumped from a height of 3,048m, with 25...
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Beech Holm
AYR.—While the barque Beech Holm, of Sunderland, bound from Ayr for Cape Town with a cargo of coal, was being towed out of the harbour on the evening of the 28th March, the tow-rope slipped from her, and before it could be recovered she...
Sharing the Work—And the Enjoyment—In a Husband and Wife Partnership Alf and Joan Jenkins Are Joint Honorary Secretaries of Truro Branch They Put Their Combin
Sharing the work—and the enjoyment—in a husband and wife partnership, Alf and Joan Jenkins are joint honorary secretaries of Truro branch. They put their combined help behind such enterprising branch activities as a button auction which... - View image in PDF
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Drena
Arbroath, Angus - At 6.17 p.m. on 27th March, 1967, three crew members of the fishing boat Drena were seen to be waving their oilskins to attract attention.
The Drena was lobster fishing in a position about half a mile from...