LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue
In this issue News 2 All the latest from and about the Lifeboats Letters 8 Sailing on through stormy seas 10 Highlights from the Chairman's latest ACM speech Lifeboats in action 14 Includes a Silver Medal-winning service Meet the fleet...
Category: Contents
Flood rescuers in action
As Lifeboat magazine went to print, RNLI Flood Rescue Team members were returning home after going to the aid of those affected by floods in Cumbria. The team, working alongside other emergency services from 6-8 December, helped...
Category: Articles
The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
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Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales
THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
Category: Services
The S.S. E. Rose
At daybreak on 10th February the s.s. E. Rose, of Great Yarmouth, bound, in ballast, from Ply- mouth to Boston, Lines., with a crew of six on board, was seen by the Coxswain to be in difficulties dangerously near a lee shore between...
Battling in a boiling torrent
Experience and compassion combined when three volunteers faced the toughest test
The call came at 8.19am on Easter Sunday 2012. All that Damien Bolton, Nicola Bradbury and Matthew Main knew was...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats. Over £500 Collected In Five Years
THIS August, for the fifth year running, the fishwives of Cullercoats made a collection for the Institution on the occasion of the road exercise and launch of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay. Once again, as they have already done each year,...
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The Five Medallists In London (Left to Right) Coxswain M Lethbridge Junior Second Coxswain E Guy Motor Mechanic W Burrow (All Members of the St. Mary's Life-Boat)
The five medallists in London (lefito right) Coxswain M. Lethbridge, junior, Second Coxswain E. Guy, Motor Mechanic W. Burrow (all members of the St.
Mary's life-boat), Coxswain P. Byrne (Arranmore) and Coxswain J.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats In Action
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
Battle in the bay
When a teenage boy found himself caught in a tidal backwash, his friends watched in horror – could anyone reach him before it was too late?
On 7 September the 13-year-old was playing with his...
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