LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New man at helm
The RNLI’s new Chief Executive Paul Boissier has been in post since September 2009. He tells the Lifeboat: ‘This job is all about stewardship.
In time I’ll need to hand over the charity in as good a shape as it is today....
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H.M. Submarine Tuna and H.M. Examination Vessel Sedulous
NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a...
The Oar
PROBABLY the most ancient mode of propelling boats through the water by hand labour was by means of oars of nearly the same shape, and worked in the same manner, as those now in use. And to all appearance there is no likelihood of a change,...
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Maraat V (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...
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Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...
R.A.F.High-Speed Launch No. 124
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off Hartlepool.
Her compass had gone wrong and she could not...
Mary Jane
About 8.15 P.M.
on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...
Life-Boat Families. The Aindows of Formby, Lancashire
ONE of the most remarkable family records in the history of the Life-boat Service is that of the Aindows of Formby, in Lancashire, who for nearly 60 years provided the greater part of the Crew of the Life-boat at Formby, a very isolated...
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Kirkwall - Scotland Division
Kirkwall, capital of Orkney and its Mainland island, lies upon a busy harbour in which there is a constant coming and going of fishing boats, ferries and other seagoing traffic.
Kirkwall station opened in 1972 following... - View image in PDF
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