LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.25 in the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, information was received through the coastguard at Easington that a rubber dinghy was drifting half a mile off Easington, and the life-boat City of Bradford //was...
Port St.Mary Lifeboat the Gough Ritchie to the Rescue (Above)
Port St Mary Lifeboat The Gough Ritchie To The Rescue (Above). - View image in PDF
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Right: Oban's Trent Class Lifeboat Mora Edith Macdonald
T, Right: Oban's Trent class lifeboat Mora Edith MacDonald. - View image in PDF
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The 50Ft Thames Lifeboat Like May's Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit
The 50ft Thames lifeboat, like May's Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit, is designed with a substantial watertight deckhouse to give her a righting capability. On her righting trials, once the strop is released she comes upright, shaking off... - View image in PDF
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Fishguard's New 52Ft Arun Class Lifeboat Marie Winstone
Fishguard's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat Marie Winstone gave a demonstration after her naming.
On her flying bridge were Coxswain Brian Hughes and the Duke of Kent.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Three New Members of Whitby D Class Inflatable Lifeboat Crew
Three new members of Whitby D class inflatable lifeboat crew, Michael Readman, David Smith and Glenn Goodberry, took a smaller inflatable craft than the one to which they are accustomed down the River Esk from Grosmont to Whitby swing bridge... - View image in PDF
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(Right) a Model of the New Lifeboat House
(right) A model of the new lifeboat house and slipway at the end of Cromer pier - a project which will be the largest ever undertaken by the RNLI. Work commences shortly and should take some 15 to 18 months to... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...
Category: Services
Walmer Lifeboat Station Shore Helper Ken Hovells of Deal
Walmer lifeboat station shore helper Ken Hovells, of Deal, is pictured with his model of Solent class lifeboat Jack Shayler and the Lees, formerly stationed at Bembridge, Isle of Wight and since reallocated to Douglas, Isle of Man. The scale... - View image in PDF
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Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
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