LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aberdeen: on Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the...
Rnli News
1,188 lives saved in 1991 Provisional figures for 1991 indicate that lifeboats were called out 4,407 times during last year and that 1,188 people were saved from death at sea by lifeboatmen and women.
Lifeboats were at sea...
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While Paul Squire
While Paul Squire, singer and comedian, was appearing in Bridlington for last summer's season, he helped to raise money for the RNLI time and time again—nothing was too much trouble. So, when the time came for him to leave. Coxswain Fred... - View image in PDF
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Rod Macdonald With Body-Boarder Paul Tilley
Rod MacDonald with body-boarder Paul Titley. - View image in PDF
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Shoreline
Shoreline Section FOR SHORELINE each new year is welcomed in by the Boat Show at Earls Court, early in January. As usual a voluntary Shoreline team was manning our stand for the full 11 days, and very well they did, too. We made an excellent...
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Legacies Provide a Wide Range of Vital Equipment, (All Shown Above(
Legacies large or small can provide a wide range of vital equipment, whether it be a £2.000 GPS satellite navigator, a £13,000 electronic chan system, a bump cap at £7 (all shown abovelorad.175.000 Trent class lifeboat (below/... - View image in PDF
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Medallists of 1927 at the Annual Meeting
Top Row: Second Coxswain Roberts and Captain Owen Jones (Moelfre, Anglesey), Coxswain Upcraft (Southwold), Coxswain Fleming (Great Yarmouth and Gorleston). Second Coxswain Balis and Coxswain Blogg (Cromer).
Bottom Row:... - View image in PDF
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Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
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Phaedra
30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...