LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surge of commitment
Members of the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team added to their existing lifeboat and swift-water rescue training commitments by running in the Virgin London Marathon on 25 April, aiming to raise £20,000 and the RNLI’s...
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People and Places
RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...
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Top Far Left: the First RNLI-Built Waveney John F Kennedy
Top far left: The first RNLI-built Waveney John F Kennedy, based at Dun Laoghaire.. - View image in PDF
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Scarborough's D Class Inflatable
Scarborough's D class inflatable was called on to land an injured seaman from a Dutch trawler on 10 August 1988.
Although winds were only light a thick fog reduced visibility to only 100 yards during the operation,... - View image in PDF
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Fair Mistress
Selsey, Sussex - At 11.50 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, it was learnt that two of the crew of four of the yacht Fair Mistress were very ill and that assist-ance was required. The life-boat Charles Henry was launched at 12.20 a.m. on 7th July in a...
A Surgeon By Motor Life-Boat. Man's Life Saved In the Shetlands
Man's Life Saved in the Shetland*.
ABOUT 6.30 in the evening of 21st October, 1935, it was reported to the coast-watcher at Sandness, on the west of the Shetlands, that a light could be seen on the island of Papa...
Category: Services
Index to the Branches
ABBRDEHS- . . . .221 ABBRDOVEY . . . .197 ABKBSOCH .... 166 ACOCK'S GrREKH . . 213 AX.DEBURGH . . . .207 INDEX TO THE BRANCHES.
CfiOMER *ISS LEEK 206 RAMSGATE...
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Right - Clovelly's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
Right - Clovelly's Atlantic 21 lifeboat leaves the harbour.. - View image in PDF
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Page 21: Coxswain Donald Macleod
Page 21: Coxswain Donald Macleod. - View image in PDF
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Jean and Barbara
AUGUST 6TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Bad weather came on after the fishing boat Jean and Barbara had left harbour. There was a strong north-west wind and very heavy seas, and at 10.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Cuttle...