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Book Reviews
With his series of books telling the stories of different life-boat stations Grahame Farr is making a unique contribution to the history of the life-boat service. Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel (Part II): The Story of the Welsh...
Category: Articles
Pwllheli - D Class the Lion
The Reverend R. F. Donaldson conducts the service of dedication for Pwllheli's new D class lifeboat outside the lifeboat house on 29 April. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Meriones
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
In the early morning of the 22nd January,the S.S. Meriones, of Liverpool, stranded on the Haisborough Sands three-quarters of a mile east by north of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy. She...
When He Landed This 21 Pound Salmon
When he landed this 21 pound salmon, Commander William Donald, chairman of Keswick branch, was so pleased that he sent the equivalent amount in sterling to the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of P. Haworth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Power of the Sea
Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
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The Late Mr. G. L. Watson
Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution, 1887 to 1904.. - View image in PDF
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Channel Tripper
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1955, anxiety was felt for the safety of an angling party, which had put off earlier in the day, and at 5.16 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched. The sea was slight, there was a light...
The Spanish Life-Boat Society
MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...
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Welcome
It’s always difficult to choose which rescues to feature in Lifeboat magazine. With an average of 23 people rescued a day, there’s a lot of courage and determination to choose from
A person in the water. Fishermen in a...
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A Tug
Lynmouth, Devon.—28th July, 1938.
A tug, with a barge in tow, was swamped in Porlock Bay, but the crew of seven swam ashore. Spectators made a collection of £10 for the Institution.— Rewards, £23 2s. Qd..