LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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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TOWN & COUNTRY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique libre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
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Welcome
Not a dry eye in the boathouse
Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...
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A Liberator Aeroplane (2)
MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...
Camelia, Magdalene, Mon Ami and Annie Mearns
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—Nine of the large fishing-boats went out to the line fishery grounds, about ninety miles distant from the land, on the morning of the 8th May. On the following evening the wind, which was blowing from E.N.E., increased...
Functional Clothing
Functional Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution in 1471 the RNLI adopted Functional for Offshore Stations The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe conditions for prolonged...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
A sponsored swim on February 25 by the Gold Fish Swimming Club, part of Bromley Society for Handicapped People, raised £267 for the RNLI, as well as a similar amount for their own association. Five severely handicapped people took part...
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Gifts from Crews
WHEN Century Life-boat Day was held at Montrose the crews of the two Boats presented £8, and in addition to this returned the sum of £5 13s., which was due to them as payment for a practice launch, thus contributing nearly £14...
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Detlef Mittman
INJURED MAN At 6.15 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the coxswain was notified that the Port Medical Officer wished to board a German tanker which had an injured man on board. The tanker was due off the harbour at 8 p.m. As it was low water it was...
The S.S. Afterglow
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 8th of August, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard sent a message that the S.S. Afterglow, of London, had asked the life-boat to land a man with an injured eye. The Afterglow was due off the...