LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Better Beaches, Safer Seas
The RNLI's Beach Rescue pilot scheme has been running all summer on selected beaches in the south west of England. As the time approaches when a full evaluation of the pilot will be made, Jane Smythson visited one of the pilot projects...
Category: Articles
Portland
Are you sifting comfortably? Back pain has now officially reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Sixty percent of adults annually suffer problems, with thirty per cent becoming chronic sufferers. Our backs are vulnerable. Poor posture in...
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East Coast
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
Zyava III
TWO TAKEN OFF LEAKING FISHING VESSEL Fleetwood, Lancashire. On the afternoon of the 24th September, 1962, several people reported that a vessel was aground between the nos. 6 and 4 buoys in the Wyre Channel, and a radio message to the same...
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
News
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
Category: Articles
Gladonia (1)
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post,
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post, outside Botchins the butchers in St John's Wood; now 80 years old, she has collected regularly since I960 and this year she brought in £26.49 in spile of biting winds. But... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
The Tweenies join the crew Popular children's BBC TV programme, The Tweenies, was in Poole in August filming with Poole lifeboat crew. The character Judy (the green one in the picture!) went afloat on the station's Brede class...
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South-Eastern District Conference
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers in th South-Eastern District — Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire Kent, Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey anc Sussex—was held...
Category: Committee