LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
They Came to Plymouth
Lifeboats representing the lifesaving associations of France, the Federal Republic of West Germany, Norway, Poland and Sweden made the voyage to the West Country last summer to be present for the opening weekend of the International Lifeboat...
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Contents
Contents 39 Summary of Accounts for 1979 40 Volume XLVII Lifeboat Services 41 JN UlTlDer 4 IL The Reconstruction of Tenby Lifeboat House, by Ian Haken 47 The Brede: prototype of a new lifeboat based on the Lochin 33 48 Chairman: Here and...
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Mikasa
At 1 A.M.
on the Hth January, Coxswain John Crocombe, received a message from the Coast-guard Station stating that inform- ation had been received by telephone to the effect that a vessel was firing signals of distress in...
Intrigue
Margate, Kent. At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 27th October, 1961, the coast-guard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Tongue lightvessel had wirelessed that a sailing yacht with four people on board was secured astern...
(Below) After Her Naming at Newhaven on September 7 1983 the New Arun Lifeboat Demonstrates Her Manoeuvrability
. . . (below) after her naming, at Newhaven on September 7, 1983, the new Arun lifeboat demonstrates her manoeuvrability. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Feature: Reader Survey
The Lifeboat is the RNLI's main contact with you, our supporters, so we are keen to ensure that it is doing its job well. To help us understand your needs better, we sent out 25,000 questionnaires with the autumn 2003 magazine. Thank you...
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A Great Seaman
THE life of Sir Henry Oliver, most appropriately called A Great Seaman and written by Sir William James (H. F. and G. Witherby, 18,9.), is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes of an adventurous career, mostly taken from his own notes and...
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Saga, the S.S. Gowrie and S.S. St. Clair
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...
Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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Black Cat
TORQUAY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October it was reported that the fishing smack Black Cat, of Paignton, was hanging on to her nets, in great danger,' off that place, having been in that positionsince the commencement of the gale, which...