LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frazer Picks the Winners
On 30 July actor Frazer Mines (best known as Joe Sugden from TV's Emmerdale) drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's 86th lifeboat lottery at RNLI Headquarters in Poole.. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Nolisement
MARCH 22ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE: OF MAN. At 7 A.M. the Castletown coastguard telephoned, for information only, that a vessel was ashore at Strandhall, one and a quarter miles E. by N. of Port St. Mary.
Thirty-five...
The Best Essay
By KATHLEEN WILLMOTT (aged 13J), of S. John Baptist Girls' School, Frome, Somerset.
What are the Qualities of the Life-boatman which make him an Example of Good Citizenship ? OUR small island home is the central jewel...
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A Steamer (13)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HASTINGS, AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. A steamer had been reported in distress, but she was taken in tow by a destroyer. - Rewards : Hastings, £29 9s. 8d. ; Eastbourne, £30 13s. 6d..
Books
Books The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats The Story Of The Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats written and published by Jeff Morris, prices in text Jeff Morris, Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, continues his prolific...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Robert Runcie
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, visited W aimer lifeboat station on Sunday October 18, 1981, where he was taken out for a trip in the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat The Hampshire Rose.
Before going aboard he met... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mizpah
At about 9 A.M. on the 14th February a vessel was seen riding with two anchors down, not far from a lee shore, about five miles W. of Margate. Her sprit and sails had been blown away and apparently the seas were washing completely over...
Kingfisher, Maureen and Good Cheer
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.
Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...
Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 12.30 p.m. on 8th March, 1964, the lifeboat Dunleary II went to the mouth of the River Liffey to escort several canoes across Dublin Bay. The canoes had taken part in a race organized in connection with the...
Your shout
The ‘shout’ came at 3.20pm one Friday. In minutes, we were aboard RNLB Realistic and I was quickly settled in the Helmsman’s seat, the Coxswain by my side. In front of me was a comforting array of dials and screens – radar, GPS, compass,...
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