LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Weather During the Year 1889
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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Penny II
St. Ivcs, Cornwall. At 3.30 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew saw the sailing dinghy Penny II capsize off St. Ives pier, throwing the two occupants into the water. The inshore rescue boat immediately launched...
By Courtesy of Francois Martin and League of Red Cross Societies
Lieutenant David Stogdon, Staff Inspector (inshore rescue boats), seated by IRB engine during the relief operations in East Pakistan. With him (centre) is Mr. - View image in PDF
Chowdhury, Aga Khan Ranger Scout.. - View image in PDF
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Golden Gift
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1956, a small fishing boat was seen from the boathouse to be firing distresssignals about one mile and a quarter north-east of the life-boat...
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter, chairman of the RNLI's public relations committee is pictured with Roger Royle. presenter of BBC Television's "Songs oj Praise' programme and Barr Hartley. Editor of the Lowcstolt Journal, recipients of RNLI... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St.Ives
Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives, at the Royal Festival Hall last May to receive his second silver medal, signs the Knebworth and District branch's copy of Patrick Howarth's book In Danger's Hour for Mrs Hazel Entecott, branch... - View image in PDF
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Chairman's Message
You receive THE LIFE-BOAT regularly because of your close personal association with the life-boat service. May I now ask t for your help or, should I say, further help? If every reader at this time of year were to find five new 3...
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THE GROSVENOR CIRCLE
Once more the Institution's drama group, The Grosvenor Circle, is to enter Westminster Drama Festival in November. Last year was the first time the group entered the festival, and it was a successful effort by all. This year's entry,...
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The Shetland Islands
WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...
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Wick, Caithness-shire; Cromarty, Cromartyshire; Whitehills, Banffshire, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—25th February. An SOS was picked up by Wick Radio Station, but no casualty was found, although each life-boat searched a separate...