LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
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A Long Search on the Aberdeen Coast. Coxswain's Silver Medal and Second-Service Clasp In One Year
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
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Lifeboat Services
Withernsea East Division HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS TEST LIFEBOAT TO LIMITS Sick yachtsman rescued in Gale force winds and 15ft seas John Hartland, 42, helmsman of the Withernsea inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal...
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The Fundraisers
Some w a y s of t i l l i n g t he c o f f e r s . . .
Pushing and pulling Although the new term was only days old, the youngsters at Fowey Community School were soon in action supporting the local community. Fifty-two Year...
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Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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News from the Branches
Greater London.
Third Annual Royal Matinee at the Savoy Theatre. (See special report.) Conference of Branch representatives at Westminster City Hall. (See special report in last issue of The Lifeboat.) BALHAM.—Life-boat Day...
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The Fundraisers
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...
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Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
No. of When No. | STATION. Length. Breadth. Oare. Station* ENGLAND. Ft. ID. Ft. in. 1 NORTHUMBERLAND BERWICK-ON-TWEED - - -: ...
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