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Valldemosa (1)

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.

Port Erin was asked...

Wild is the wind

Date: Winter 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 598 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2011

The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: May 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 236

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...

Category: Articles

Patrick Howarth: RNLI Public Relations Officer for More Than a Quarter of a Century

Date: Winter 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 471

WHEREIN LIES the essence of good public relations? Who better to ask than Patrick Howarth, for more than a quarter of a century public relations officer of the RNLI? His answer is predictably clear-cut and to the point: 'First of all in...

Category: Articles

The Gold Standard

Date: Summer 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 521

Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...

Category: Medals

The Hurricane at Calcutta

Date: January 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 55

DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...

Category: Articles

The Radio Ship Mi Amigo

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...

Gellie

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...

Opening of the Kirkcudbright New Life-Boat House

Date: February 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 167

ON the 30th November last a double event of a most interesting nature took place at the Lake, near Kirkcudbright, when the new Life-boat house, recently built by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT ' INSTITUTION, was opened and formally handed...

Category: Inaugurations

A Service of Which the Nation Is Proud

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

The following address was given by the Archbishop of York at the funeral of three members of the Scarborough life-boat on 3th December, 1951.

WE have assembled this afternoon to pay a tribute of honour to the three brave...

Category: Articles