• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
Category: Articles
Dear Editor, I have been involved with or hanging around lifeboats since 1946 and have a fundraising silver badge.
The feature 'Lifeboating - an education' in the spring issue of the Lifeboat sparked off the...
Category: Correspondence
THE LiFE-BoAT.
Words by Vice-Admiral J. E. WARD.
~ 'i mf Last Verse and Music composed by C. H. PURDAT.
VOICE.
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Fine ships and...
Category: Songs
Appledore, North Devon December 5.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...
Category: Services
At half-past four on the morning of Sunday, the 23rd October, a coastguardman, on the look-out near the quiet little seaside town of Clacton, saw a signal rocket fired from, the Gunfleet Floating Lightship, which told of a wreck on the...
Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
'Dagenite batteries are used extensively by "the RNLI; and they don't take any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car ?...
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St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, returning at 0700 on October 17, 1980 from escorting the French trawler Floralie in gale force winds. A big breaking wave can just be seen coming up astern. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Potential buyers sift through some of the enormous number of lots at the second 'Blue Peter Pieces of Eight' auction at Ringwood. Some idea of the immense quantity still to be sold can be gained from the parcels stacked on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette has just published as a pamphlet the logs kept by the Master and Chief Officer of the Trevessa, during the voyages of the two boats of that vessel after she sank in the Indian Ocean, on 4th June last.<...
Category: Articles
Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...
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