LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
I was very pleased to include a message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT last year, and I am delighted to do so again.
I mentioned last year various developments in lifeboat design which were being undertaken, and it is...
Category: Articles
The Belgian Yacht Phaedra
Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...
Competition - Renault 5 Shoreline Drive
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Category: Advertisement
Per Mare, Per Terram
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
Category: Articles
‘SHE WENT QUICK’
With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
Category: Articles
Letters
First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...
Category: Correspondence
The Folio Society
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The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
The RNLI and me: Ant Middleton
WHO IS ANT MIDDLETON?
Ant Middleton features in Channel 4’s SAS : Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and the forthcoming Escape. Born in Portsmouth and raised in France, Ant followed a career in the armed forces, eventually joining the Royal...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
MR. C. R. BENSTEAD in Shallow Waters (Robert Hale, 21/-), has produced an engaging, lustily written account of almost anything which may happen and has happened in the coastal waters of Britain. His range is extensive.
On...
Category: Articles