LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Service to Holland 1:
Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.
the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...
Category: Services
RNLI News
RNLI's largest bequestThe RNLI has recently received its largest legacy ever.
The bequest is eventually expected to total some £6.5m, and will be a great help to the Institution in providing new lifeboats and...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Licencing for sailors? is interesting to speculate on what would happen if we were ever to lose our traditional freedom to go to sea.
Many lifeboat callouts are for seafarers in small craft powered by unreliable outboard...
Category: Correspondence
A Balloon Race
A Balloon Race THE Heston, Isleworth, and Brentford and Chiswick branch of the Institu- tions has held a very successful bazaar.
One of its attractions was a toy balloon race, the third which the branch has arranged. The...
Category: Branches
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Practical Help: (Above) Scouts Repaint Poole's Old Lifeboat House Now a Museum With Paint Supplied By 1C I As Part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (Photo Jeff Morris) A
Practical help: (above) Scouts repaint Poole's old lifeboat house, now a museum, with paint supplied by 1C I as part of the Brighter Britain Campaign (photo, Jeff Morris), and (below) members of 206 air navigation course, RAF Finningly,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bose
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Category: Advertisement
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
Two Pleasure Boats
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Considerable anxiety was felt here on the 16th August, as to the safety of two pleasure boats with five visitors on board which had set out for Peel. At 9.45 P.M. the wind blew a gale from the S.S.W., the sea was rough,...
Monty's Marine life
Diver, journalist and DIY convert Monty Halls tells Rory Stamp why he chose the simple life – and why he will always be grateful to the RNLI
When I step into Monty’s small Bristol office, I’m confronted with a toothy grin...
Category: Articles