LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Speedy rescue saves diver Helmsman David Fordy and Crew Member Michael Hoyle were both standing at the front door of the Seahouses boathouse when the call came. An exhausted diver was in difficulty in confused seas near a cliff face. He...
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
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Morn
Margate, Kent.—At about noon on the 10th June, 1939, a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Farewell to An Old Friend
It can sometimes be forgotten that the excitement of having a new lifeboat on station is often tinged with real sadness at losing an old friend - a lifeboat which has see the crew through thick and thin and whose every nut, bolt and foible... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Merchant Vanguard
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—In the early hours of the 16th of June, 1956, the lighthouse keeper telephoned that rockets were being fired two miles from the harbour. At 2.30 the life- boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in a very rough sea....
Statistically Speaking
The Institution is re-analysing its records to investigate the causes of loss of life at sea. Some interesting facts are emerging.The RNLI exists for one simple reason - to save lives at sea. In the pursuit of that seemingly simple goal it...
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A Hundred Years Ago
CHANGE OF TITLE OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the "Royal...
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A Story of Dutch Life-Boats
Messrs. Victor Gollancz Ltd. are to be congratulated on producing under the title Wild Water an English edition of a Dutch book by Klaas Toxopeus, which has already had considerable success in the Netherlands (15s.).
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Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.20 early on the morning of the 7th of November, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a rocket had been seen in the direction of Shellness Point, and at 2.55 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3,...