LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MISSING BUOY TAKEN IN TOW Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.10 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flashing light had been seen south-east-by-south of Portland Bill moving west. There...
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Aith, Shetland. — At 12.30 A.M. on Christmas Day, 1937, a doctor telephoned that he had been asked to go tothe outlying island of Foula, as the inhabitants were in the grip of an epidemic of influenza, one person being critically ill, and...
Penita
Two maydays FOLLOWING A MAYDAY from the yacht Penita received by Dover Coastguard on Friday August 29, 1980, Ramsgate lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Ralph and Joy Swann, launched at 2330 under the command of Second Coxswain Derek Pegden, the...
An American Tribute.
On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...
Category: Articles
Wroxham and District Branch
This magnificent knitted quilt bedspread is the creation of the ladies of Wroxham and District branch. /( caused £700 worth of raffle tickets to be sold for a chance to own it when the branch held a luncheon at the Norfolk Broads Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature View from the Cockpit
Where do search and rescue helicopters go when they're not saving lives? James Ferguson hitches a ride with RAF Lossiemouth to find out.British military helicopters and RNLI lifeboats have been working together for over 50 years, with...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
FOE the sixth year running the fishwives of CuIIercoats have held their collection for the Institution on the occasion of the August road exercise and Launch I of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay, and | although, for the first time, they have...
Category: Articles
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
Richard Oakley, MBE, MRINA
A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Obituaries
Contents
contents neWs including 10 new FOR DARTMOUTH saving lives on the river, beach and open sea 11 YOUTHFUL CRew SeT SAIL seafaring experience with a difference 1 LIFeGUARDS wORK weT SUMMeR norfolk’s first season 15 STAYInG In TOUCH membership...
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