LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sixteen Men Rescued from Wreck
ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.
Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
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Theresa and Wladiener
CAISTER.—On the 28th March, a vessel was seen by her lights to be approaching the Barber Sand, and to lay fast on it about 7.45 P.M., when flares were burned immediately on board her. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat was forthwith launched, and...
Drawn Into a New Car
Car Draw winner Miss Daphne Knights (left) is pictured with Anne Wilkins, the RNLI's regional organiser for Greater London collecting her new Volvo from Tamplins Volvo dealership in Croydon. Miss Knights current car is pictured right, a... - View image in PDF
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Scotland Community news
MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
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The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
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An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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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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Taking the Strain!
Taking the strain! With the help of the local Brownie pack Mr John Hunt, a senior railwayman at Lingfield, has raised over £1,500 for the RNLI during the past three years by supplying refreshments at the station, mainly on race days at... - View image in PDF
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