LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI's presence at the 1998 London International Boat Show once again proved to be a great success. Financial income, including sales items, membership recruitment and donations, was up 13% on last year's total - £10,000 was... - View image in PDF

PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUNTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.

A very fine example of English...

Tragedy as five are swept overboard from charter ya cht A short but difficult search for survivors from a yacht which had been knocked down in the entrance to Tynemouth harbour has earned three of Tynemouth lifeboat's crew letters of...

DIAMETER Mill)- Inches 2 3 4 5 6 5/64 1/8 5/32 3/16 1/4 STANDING RIGGING RUNNING 1x19 7x7 I 6x19(PVCCORE) MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD 750 1,680 3,000 4,650 6,700 580 1,300 2,300 3,600 5,200.

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...

Only a few of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin went out to sea on the 26th March as the sea was rough.

Towards low tide the landing became dangerous and some of them had diffi- culty in coming in. As there were...

THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.

Since 1924 there has been a great im-...