LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For Cuddles Was Their New 70kg Rescue Dummy
A trio of new arrivals at Burnham-on- Sea lifeboat station, Somerset, have been welcomed with open arms.
Joining a crew can be a nervewracking experience but it didn’t take long for Cuddles to settle in last year,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salvage for Rescuing the Crews of Wrecked Ships
REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION regarding the crews of its life-boats making claims on owners for rescuing the crews of their wrecked vessels in cases where property of trifling...
Category: Committee
James Cocker & Sons,
ABERDEEN C i T Y COUNCIL To the rescue with the "Shinins isht' Rose Lifeboats * J» AJM.f M.11 I J.YV7 LJ V- Roval Na(lonal U)eboat "Shining Light" was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council as part of the Millennium...
Category: Advertisement
Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
Category: Services
Cowes Week 2010
After last year’s success, the RNLI has again been named as the official charity partner for Cowes Week 2010.
The internationally famous sailing regatta has been staged each August since 1826 and attracts participants and...
Category: Articles
The Duty of Watching the Coast for Casualties
THE exact position which the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION occupies with regard to keeping a watch for casualties seems to be very little understood by the general public, the result being that on several occasions the Coxswains of...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
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• Fully self contained flats, inc. balcony.
• Open all year - Off Season...
Category: Advertisement
One of the good folk
As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...
Category: Articles
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
Silver Medal for Norwegians
As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT the Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning - the Norwegian Life-boat Institution - is celebrating its 75th anniversary this month.
Commander F. R. H. Swann, R.N.V.R., a deputy...
Category: Medals