LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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I just felt I had to put pen to paper after reading the recent article on Storm Force membership for children. It referred to the young man who won a competition 20 years ago by creating Stormy Stan the lifeboatman – well, I happen to be...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
Lighthouse Mission
FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.
Category: Services
Yarmouth: After Naming Joy and John Wade (Above) the Duke of Kent Went Afloat In the Lifeboat and Is Seen (Below) on the Flying Bridge With Coxswain David Kennett
Yarmouth: After naming Joy and John Wade (above), the Duke of Kent went afloat in the lifeboat and is seen (below) on the flying bridge with Coxswain David Kennett. (Left) Coxswain Kennett and Second Coxswain/ Mechanic Richard Whibley are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Years Ago Little and Broad Haven Ladies' Guild Held a Special Opening Ceremony for Their New Souvenir Shop and In 1980 They Doubled Their First Year's Takings to £6000 Other Recent Fund Rai
Two years ago Little and Broad Haven ladies' guild held a special opening ceremony for their new souvenir shop and in 1980 they doubled their first year's takings to £6,000. Other recent fund raising events have included a grand... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northern Exposure
On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
Category: Articles
GET SWIMFIT
These days swimming lessons aren’t all about armbands or diving for bricks in your PJs. As the nights draw in, we asked swimming coach Ashley Jones to help us become confident open water swimmers by next summer
This time...
Category: Articles
(Above) Thames:
(above) Thames: length overall 50ft; beam 14ft 6in; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 27 tons; maximum speed, 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Thames, introduced in 1973, has a crew of six, she lies afloat. Her hull is... - View image in PDF
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4th Janu- ary. A vessel was reported to be in distress, but nothing could be found.— Rewards, £22 5s. 4d..
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