LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spirit
spirit Incredible journey The RNLI’s Chief Executive spent an especially productive Summer last year. Carol Waterkeyn finds out how A senior manager takes a cycle ride. Quite unremarkable until you realise that the man in question is the...
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Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the...
Shoreline
AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...
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Walmer Life-Boat Crew at French Embassy
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
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Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The Story of the St Davids Lifeboats by Dr George Middleton Doctor Middleton's 42- page A5 booklet chronicling the history of the lifeboats in this delightful corner of Wales is now in its fifth...
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A Canoe
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
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JUNE 6TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Airmen had baled out from a British bombing aeroplane returning from the invasion of France, but some of them had already been rescued by Portland fishermen. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d. (See...
Tamar on trial
The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...
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Albatross
Propeller fouled NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CALLS were received by Brixham Coastguard at about 0120 on Wednesday August 18, 1982, reporting the sighting of red flares off Teignmouth Pier. Teignmouth Coastguard rescue company were immediately alerted...
Mauranger
At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...