LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
I name this lifeboat ...
Children have been given a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to name a lifeboat in a recent competition. As well as choosing the name of a new Shannon class, the winner and their family will be VIP guests at the naming...
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No. 2, of Dundee
BROUGHTY FERRY.—At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, the pilot-cutter No. 2 of Dundee, dragged its anchor and stranded on Abertay Sands.
Heeling over until it lay broadside to the gale, the vessel...
A Wreck at Sea
" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
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The 26-feet Auxiliary Yawl Shona
Lytham St. Annes.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd of June, 1952, a resident telephoned that a yacht was aground on the south side of the Riddle Estuary. It could be seen that she was dried out close up to the South Training...
The Hopper No. 42
— Just before midnight on the 12th-13th September the hopper No. 42, of London, which was making for Ply- mouth to coal, struck on the south side of the Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched to her assistance, and, on...
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
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Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
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'I name this lifeboat Storm Rider!'
Naming an RNLI lifeboat is a once-in-a-lifetime honour – an honour that fell to 14-year-old Rachel Fairhurst during a special ceremony in July ...
Our newest Shannon class lifeboat and her...
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RNLI station at Cowes
The inshore lifeboat station at Cowes, Isle of Wight, joined the RNLI fold on 1 July.
The trustees of the town’s independent lifeboat service, which had been serving the community for 19 years, asked the RNLI to take on...
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Foreign coins
Tesco Stores Ltd, the biggest supermarket chain in the British Isles, has kindly agreed to collect foreign coins for the RNLI in their stores from July to September. It is estimated that there are millions of pounds worth of foreign coins,...
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