LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welcome
Not a dry eye in the boathouse
Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...
Category: Articles
A Steam Fishing Launch
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,—On the 1st September September a terrific gale of wind Mew from the S., and the sea was very heavy. The Joseph Armstrong Life-boat put off at 3 P.M., and conducted safely ashore one of the steam fishing-launches belonging...
A Steam Trawler
•—• 17th January.
A steam trawler had stranded and her crew were rescued by the life-saving apparatus while the life-boat played her searchlight on the trawler. The owners, Plymouth Trawlers, Ltd., presented a clock to the...
Contents
Contents Notes of the Quarter by the Editor Burtonia; Largest Lifeboat Flotilla; Bristol and Ship Owners; Onedin Line; Support from Sport 199 XLIII Annual General Meeting 201 Number 449 „ . r . Naming Ceremonies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 206...
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The RNLI and me: Guy Martin
WHO IS GUY MARTIN?
Born in Grimsby, Guy Martin is a mechanic better known for his motorcycle racing and television programmes, including The Boat That Guy Built and Speed with Guy Martin. When he’s not trying to break world speed...
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OUT OF REACH
A father swam out to stop his daughter drifting away in an inflatable dinghy, but couldn’t reach her. Thankfully, there were willing RNLI volunteers who could
On Saturday 30 June 2018, Blackpool Crew Members Iain...
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St.David's Ladies' Guild Held An Aide Tyme Music Hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1 Attended By About 200 People Most of Them In Splendid Period Costume A
St David's ladies' guild held an aide tyme music hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1, attended by about 200 people, most of them in splendid period costume. A glittering evening of song, dance and mirth was under the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...
The Oil Drilling Rig Sea Quest Costing £3]M Before She Left the Belfast Shipyard That Built Her Boats Can Be Seen on Davits at Deck Level
The Oil Drilling Rig Sea Quest Costing £3]M Before She Left The Belfast Shipyard That Built Her Boats Can Be Seen On Davits at Deck Level. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...