LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The kindness of strangers
Kevin Payne dreamed of starting a new life by the Mediterranean. On 2 July 2007, he left Southampton in his 25m converted trawler Abundance, with friend George, Daisy the dog, Fluffy the cat, and everything he owned onboard. Mairéad...
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New Brighton: Volunteers vs the giant
Four incidents near New Brighton Lifeboat Station saw RNLI volunteers put their casualty care training into action during Wirral’s Giant Spectacular in October. As a giant puppet marched through the town, onlookers who took accidental...
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A hint to parents
Lifesaving is not just about pulling people out of the water. Saving lives by changing the attitudes and behaviour of children and young people has always played a vital role in the RNLI’s work.
As early as 1860 the...
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Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
THIS important subject, so intimately con- nected with the work of the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, has from time to time been treated of in our columns; but it is one of such general interest that any later information on the subject...
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Princess Alice, of Ipswich
On the 28th January, at daylight, a boat, with 5 men in it, was seen from Southwold, drifting towards the shore.
There was a verj high surf on the coast, which would have made it impossible for her to land, or for any...
The Austrian Barque Pace
About 1 P.M. on the 28th December, JOSEPH Cox, the cox- swain of the Hope life-boat stationed at Appledore, was informed by the coast-guard that two vessels were embayed, and would probably go on shore. He instantly assembled his crew,...
H.M.S. Witherington (1)
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
Provider (1)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...