LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Volunteer crew members are now on stand-by 24/7 at new trial lifeboat stations at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and Union Hall, Co Cork. The RNLI has declared both stations as search and rescue assets, with Atlantic 75 inshore...
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A Catamaran
Disabled catamaran THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF Mudeford lifeboat station received a pager call from the Coastguard at 1845 on Wednesday July 11, 1984, after reports that a catamaran had overturned and was in difficulties off Chewton Bunny.<...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
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An Admiralty Trawler
NOVEMBER 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At about 6 P.M. the coxswain was told by the resident naval officer that the life-boat might be required. A moderate northerly wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The crew stood by, and...
Lifeboat weekends
A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.
Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...
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A Yacht
Two launches THE MUMBLES LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) launched twice in the storms of August 14, 1979. The first launch, at 0735, was to stand by while the tug Hendon brought a yacht manned by two people through...
Serendipitous Sighting
Three sailors whose flares were seen off the coast of Pembrokeshire on 5 September were very glad that vigilant onlookers called the Coastguard.
Their boat had capsized, and Fishguard’s inshore lifeboat, battling force 5–6...
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Rescue By a Grimsby Trawler
THE Institution has presented its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to be hung on board the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, an inscribed Binocular Glass to the skipper, Mr. W. Brewster, and a monetary reward to each member of his crew for their...
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