LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat People
Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.
* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...
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Cover Picture
Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stacks Of Support
Selling Our Secrets, Silly Odd Socks, Soup Or Sandwiches … once again, lifeboat crews, lifeguards and supporters got into the spirit of SOS Day on 29 January.
Celebrity supporters included stars of Emmerdale, the Llanelli...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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MARCH 31ST. - GALWAY BAY. As a matter of grave urgency the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take two of his patients to the mainland for immediate operations. The weather was fine, with a light south-west wind and a...
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Pull of the ocean
She’s the first woman to row the ‘big three’ solo, but environmentalist Roz Savage has another mission that needs the help of millions
At 34, Roz Savage had what she calls a midlife crisis....
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Richard Dimbleby's Appeal
[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ivor Isabel and the S.S. Aase Maersk
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 12.45 on the morning of the 9th of February, 1954, the Nell's Point coastguard reported that the S.S. Ivor Isabel, of London, and the S.S. Aase Maersk, of Nyborg, Denmark, had been in collision between...
The Boatmen of Britannia
RUN quick, ring out the Life-boat, and quick ring out the crew, No tempest that could daunt them o'er England ever blew.
Where wood upon the water can ever float and save.
The boatmen of Britannia...
Category: Poetry