LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.

Why I admire the Life-Boatman.

MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...

The RNLI has signed a new deal with the ChinaRescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS).

The deal builds on the agreement that has been in place between the two organisations for the past 5 years, which saw 20 ex-RNLI lifeboats make...

branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.

Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...

LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...

SICK MAN BROUGHT ASHORE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of January 4th, 1947, the South Rock Light-vessel was seen to be firing distress signals. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was moderate. The motor life...

Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...

Man clinging to mast THE HONORARY SECRETARY of YoUghal lifeboat station received a telephone call from the Gardai at 1745 on the evening of Wednesday August 1, 1984.

They had been informed by a passer-by that a commercial...

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