LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A NAVY Bomb Disposal team tackles still active wartime relic, caught in the nets of a fishing vessel.
A party of 10 anglers, adrift in their disabled boat, float into the danger area just as the wartime explosive...
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Inflatable searches in 'huge' surf on Cornish coastBude's D class lifeboat often has to launch through heavy surf, but a service on 3 July in exceptional conditions has brought the helmsman Paddy Frost and crew members Jonathan...
The Goodwin Sands
THE Goodwin Sands have earned over and over again their grim description as '; the graveyard of ships." In them are sunk the timbers of hundreds of ships and the bones of thousands of seamen.
At low tide men have...
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Message from the Director
By the time this letter is published I will have succeeded Rear Admiral Graham as director and secretary of the RNLI.
It is a tremendous honour and a considerable challenge to have been appointed by the committee of...
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Sea Flower
On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...
The East German M.V. Saale
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
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FASHION SHOW
Helensburgh sailing club, Argyll and...
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Lombard
We finance anything from the humble to The Hamble. If you 're looking to buy anything from a dinghy to a yacht we can almost certainly help with the finance.
Simply fill in this application form to find out how. And if...
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Wild Rocket
Aground in gully THE DUTY ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER at St Peter Port, who is a deputy launching authority (DLA) of the lifeboat station, was informed by the Signal Station at 0428 on Tuesday October 11, 1983, that the French yacht Wild Rocket...