LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
College principal
Geraldine Grainger is the RNLI’s new College Principal and Head of Training. Geraldine joined the charity from the John Lewis Partnership, where she was responsible for the training, learning and development of 28,000 partners. She also has...
Category: Articles
Book Review
Motor Boats and Motor Boating by Hilary and K. J. Wickham (Stanley Paul, 255) can be recommended as a clearly written and sensible guide to those who are planning to take to the water for their own pleasure. The book is directed to beginners...
Category: Articles
An Ex-naval Pinnace
WATERLOGGED PINNACE At 7.14 p.m. on ifth October, 1963, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen off Dimlington. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 7.25 in a moderate southerly breeze and moderate sea....
Our Shoreline Volunteer Enrolment Team Which Had Such a Fine Record at the London International Boat Show In January Was Back at Earls Court In March Hard at Wor
Our Shoreline volunteer enrolment team which had such a fine record at the London International Boat Show in January was back at Earls Court in March hard at work throughout the Ideal Home Exhibition.
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Category: Photographs
New District Organising Secretary
MRS. R. H. ROBINSON, M.B.E., who on retiring from the W.R.A.C. in the rank of Major, was appointed Assistant Organising Secretary for the South- East district, has been appointed District Organising Secretary for that district in succession...
Category: Committee
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...
Category: Articles
Yulan
It is not often that loss of life has to be recorded in con- nection with shipwrecks on the Good- win Sands, so well organised is the Life- boat service in the neighbourhood, but unfortunately the loss of the ketch Yulan, of Harwich, during...
Melody
JULY 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. On the occasion of the Babbacombe Regatta it was thought wise that the life-boat should patrol the course as a westerly breeze was blowing, causing a choppy sea, and it was bad weather for dinghy racing. The motor...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 17th January, between 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., the fishing fleet of Gourdon put to sea. At 8 A.M.
there were signs of an approaching gale, and some of the smaller boats returned to harbour. By noon a...
Francois Tixier
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.40 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Francois Tixier, of Dunkirk, bound from Goole for Rouen with a cargo of coal, was flying distress signals four miles north by...