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
• 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
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...
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...
Category: Articles
Thirteen life-boatmen lost their lives at sea or died on their return. Three of the thirteen were killed by the enemy. One of the three was killed in the lifeboat of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, when she was attacked by a German aeroplane; The...
Category: Articles
By the death on 4th March of Mr.
Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Worthing, a Vice-President of the Institution, the Life-boat Service has lost its oldest and one of its most loyal and distinguished friends. Mr....
Category: Obituaries
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