LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Is your child at risk? Page 3 Lifeguards in action Page 21 Building the Atlantics Page 29 Dougie Munro and Aileen Jones honoured Page 43 News To the rescue in Russia Vital volunteers The story behind the RNLI Sales company Lifeboat Lottery...
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Eddy and Sid Present the Quids
Funnymen Little and Large presented a cheque for £1,100 to Blackpool lifeboat crew 24 August 1996. The money was raised from an angling competition organised by Blackpool Boat Anglers at their festival on the 17 and 18 of... - View image in PDF
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Focus on . . . . Sunderland
THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...
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AEGEAN SUPPORT
The narrow channels between Turkey and Greece have been busy over the past year, as desperate people attempt to cross the Aegean into Europe. More than 700 are believed to have drowned. How can the RNLI help?
Just 4 miles...
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St.Ives Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall
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
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Nell
KETCH SNATCHED FROM GOODWINS WHEN a yacht was seen burning flares in the vicinity of the South Goodwin \ightvessel at 4.6 a.m. on 24th May, 1972, the Walmer, Kent, life-boat was launched 14 minutes later.
The life-boat...
Havoc, Kermit and Guilding Star
Search in fog A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC reported to Tynemouth Coastguard on Saturday June 14, 1980, that a ship's foghorn had been heard east of Berwick Lighthouse.
Berwick lifeboat station was informed at 1310 and five...
The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
The S.S. Dynamo
FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...
Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope
Runs wick, Yorkshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1948, the Staithes fishing boats Minnie, Silver Line and Star of Hope went to the fishing grounds. The wind was light, from the north-west, but the sea was rough and...