LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal rescues 8 Porthcawl to Fishguard 16 Howard Richings continues his look at lifeboat stations around the coast Kings of...
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Thomas Wilson Mp First Chairman of the Rnli Who Presided at the Meeting When It Was Agreed to Consider Producing a Periodical Journal of Lifeboat Affairs
Thomas Wilson Mp First Chairman of the Rnli Who Presided at The Meeting When It Was Agreed To Consider Producing A Periodical Journal of Lifeboat Affairs. - View image in PDF
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Wells-Next-The-Sea- Mersey Class Doris M Mann of Ampthill
Well's new Mersey class lifeboat Doris M Mann of Ampthill ties off the quayside during her naming ceremony. (Inset) HRH The Duchess of Kent waves a greeting as she takes a short trip on the lifeboat . (Photos Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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Mystery, of Glasgow
Weston-sup&r-Mare, Somerset. — At about 6 P.M. on the 9th December, 1937, the pier-master at Clevedon informed the life-boat station that the Walton Bay coastguard had had a vessel anchored off Hook Buoy under observation since the...
Bottom. the Dutch Lifeboat Service
Bottom. The Dutch lifeboat service operates a number of large rigid inflatables, this is the Johannes Frederic class which is capable of 36 knots.. - View image in PDF
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S.S. James Otis, of San Francisco
FEBRUARY 7TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 3.45 in the morning the naval authorities at Salcombe informed the coxswain that a ship was ashore at Lannacombe Bay. A fresh west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea...
Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Developed By Rnli from a Design Originated at Atlantic College South Wales Hull Flat-Bottomed for Beaching Is Marine Ply Or Grp With Infla
Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
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Aubrey Diggle, Pictured Left, Receiving a Letter of Appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for Saving Two Surfers
Aubrey Diggle, pictured left, receiving a letter of appreciation from Peter Nicolson, Chairman of the RNLI, for saving two surfers. - View image in PDF
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Instead of Flowers
CAPTAIN S. E. FOSTER, R.N., who for several years was honorary secretary of the Ryde, Isle of Wight, station, died last August. Knowing his interest in the life-boat service his family, in the announcement of his death, asked that gifts...
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Rinda, of Oslo
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett...