LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Bank of Scotland
RNLI Andy Huggelt: 2nd coxswain ana deputy mechanic. Eastbourne lifeboat.
He'll face 30ft waves, force 9 gales and sub-zero temperatures.
All you face is an application form.
Every...
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Safe Landings?
High Summer always draws swimmers to the sea, but only the toughest would brave the weather buffeting Flamborough Head on the afternoon of 22 August 2007. As Elizabeth Paine reports, one such soul tested a new lifeboat and her crew in a race...
Category: Articles
Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
Category: Articles
The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
Category: Articles
THE GENERATION OF LIFESAVING
What difference did the RNLI make in 2014? At our AGM and Annual Presentation of Awards on 21 May, supporters and volunteers gathered to find out. By 4.30pm, at the Barbican, London, hands were aching from applause, hearts were...
Category: Articles
The Heavy Gales of May and June Last
Also II. to some men for rescuing 2 men from a boat which was capsized by a heavy sea, on the 8th May last, off Gweedore Bar, on the coast of Donegal.
Also Silver Medal of the Institution and U to Gunner CHARLES LEESE, and...
Category: Articles
Royston (1)
DECEMBER 7TH. - 13TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning a message was received at Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles south of Palling coastguard station. A strong...
Letters
An enjoyable experience While I was on holiday near Veryan last summer I enjoyed sailing by dinghy in Gerrans Bay. However on July 18, when I had the outboard motor on the boat, the motor failed and I was driven on to the rocks at Nare Head....
Category: Correspondence
An Appeal for Help
Let our thoughts and tender feelings Wander o'ei the main, To the dying sailors crying " Help! " " Oh, help !" in vain.
Who can save the mother's treasure Clinging to the mast ? Who can hear that...
Category: Poetry
Snowdon Range
The steam- ship Snowdon Range, of Sunderland, which passed through and survived such a succession of misfortunes in mid- Atlantic, came very near to being wrecked when being towed into harbour on the 14th January. The disabled steamer was...