LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yawl
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.
on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the...
Feature: Knowledge Is Power
Lack of knowledge is thought to be the root cause of most deaths in UK and Irish waters, and the RNLI'sSea Safety mission is to counter this. GarethWeekes reportsA relatively new strand of the RNLI's work, Sea Safety was a response...
Category: Articles
Bose
The Bose Wave' radio/CD. When we designed the Wave* radio/CD, we spent over a year making it one of the smallest, most compact systems available. One that fits almost anywhere.
But despite all that, all anyone seems to...
Category: Advertisement
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNU family, past and present
Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...
Category: Articles
Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
People and profit
Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
You might be familiar with the RNLI's mail order catalogue, but did...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Station by station lifeboat launches for June and July Aberdeen: ILB D-536: Jun 3 (2) Jul 5(2) and Jul 1 1 Aberdoiey: ILB B-758: Jun IH Jul I6and Jul 22 Abtnock ILBB-582: Jun 10 and Jul 23 biT stwylh: 1LBB-704: Jun 4 Jun 17(3) Jul 20 and...
Category: Services
A Dinghy
Divers found AT 2018 on July 25, 1987 Falmouth Coastguard MRCC received a report of an overdue dinghy with four people on board - two men, a woman and child - and alerted Falmouth's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Sole Bay, which...
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
Category: Contents
Shantico (2)
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...