LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shipwash Lightvessel
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that there was a very sick man in the Shipwash light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would put off with a doctor. At seven o'clock the no....
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Trapped!
The steamer looks as if she were going on her way. In fact she is held fast by the sands.. - View image in PDF
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Michalis Poutous
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
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Life-boat 70-001 The Mumbles - At 5.7 on I4th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a rubber dinghy was reported drifting seawards.
The IRB carried aboard the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No...
Mr Michael Constable of Bridlington Yorkshire Who Is Chief Engineer of the MV Rangitoto Has Turned His Hobby of Lapidary—Collecting Stones and Pebbles—Into Profit For
Mr. Michael Constable, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who is chief engineer of the m.v. Rangitoto, has turned his hobby of lapidary—collecting stones and pebbles—into profit for the R.N.L.I. During voyages he polishes stones and pebbles to... - View image in PDF
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Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o rm F o r c e Action stations As technology continually improves, so too does the RNLI's ability to save lives at sea.
But every improvement comes at a...
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A Noble Act
AMONGST the many noble deeds of heroism by our Life-boats' crews and others during the recent fearful gale, perhaps none is more deserving of being held up for public admiration and sympathy than that of the Captain of the s.s. Cyprian,...
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A Dinghy (2)
IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.
on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...
The Lifeboat Service—Past and Present
Years Ago The following is an extract from the speech by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (Chairman of the RNLI, 1923-56) at the 1935 Annual General Meeting and reported in THE LIFEBOAT of June 1935.
and then had to go on to New...
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