LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The best thing about this job is the people
While putting Lifeboat magazine together, we get to speak with some incredible people. They all say they’re just regular folk, but we know they’re achieving extraordinary things....
Category: Articles
Gopak Ltd,
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Category: Advertisement
Dolphin
Propeller fouled AT ABOUT 2100 on Thursday June 1, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Hartlepool lifeboat station that a Shackleton aircraft and a helicopter were searching for the MFV Dolphin whose trawl had caught on an...
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
Donation from the Scottish Fisheries
IT will be remembered that during the terrible gales in the winter of 1929 to 1930, great damage was done to the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, llth November, 1929, it was estimated that the fleet, when fishing off the East Anglian...
Category: Donations
Lombard North Central Plc
The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.
For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...
Category: Advertisement
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
AUGUST 25TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 10.35 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer, Penzance, through the coastguard, that an Anson aeroplane was down three miles N.W. of Portreath. A light S.W. wind...
Ilb Launches
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Category: Services
Anne
Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...