LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months Lune, July and August, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Ballycotton, Co. Cork Baltimore, Co. Cork Bar mouth,...
Category: Services
The R.N.L.I, In Pakistan
AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...
Category: Articles
Letters
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence
Morag
Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report had been...
All In a Good Cause By Pat Dewhurst
Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
Category: Donations
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
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Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...
Feature: Knowledge Is Power
Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Skilful ILB Rescue off Southwold SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on 6th February, 1972, Mr. Patrick Pile, a member of the Southwold inshore life-boat crew, walked to the end of the harbour mouth. The wind was east south east, force 6, and gusting...