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Date: Winter 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 567

Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...

Category: Articles

The Ship Tavern's '101 Dalmatians'

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

The Ship Tavern's '101 Dalmatians' float wins first place in the fancy dress float competition on Anstruther lifeboat station's 19th annual gala.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Having a Ball? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

Having a hall? Lord Provost Robert Cray of Glasgow teed off in fine style to celebrate the raising of £2,105 for the City of Glasgow's Lifeboat Appeal Fund at a golf tournament held by Whitbread Scotland. The dimpled downpour took... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

SUDDEN SINKING

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018

At sea, things can go very wrong very quickly, as Penarth lifeboat crew found out on 12 June

Kath Fisher couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning, she thought: ‘Is this an omen that something’s about to happen?’ At 1.15am, her...

Category: Articles

Your Letters

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Face in the cliffs Reading the Spring 1998 issue of The Lifeboat. I noticed the photograph of Valentia's Severn class lifeboat. Yet I wonder if any other readers noticed that just above the bow of the lifeboat, in the edge of the rugged...

Category: Correspondence

News

Date: Summer 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 581

neWs the latest launches, live! the rescue stories you read in the Lifeboat are but a handful of the thousands of RnLi lifeboat launches undertaken every year. now, the RnLi desktop pager allows computer users to keep up to date with every...

Category: Articles

Telegraphic Communication With Lightships

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...

Category: Articles

While the Production Boats (Right)

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

while the production boats (right) have less camber and no raised section.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Saturday Fund

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

THE Life-boat Saturday workers through- out the country, after reviewing the year's campaign thus far conducted, may well congratulate themselves on the very satisfactory results they have secured.

Taking all things...

Category: Articles

Lt Col Gerald Ross,

Date: Autumn 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 506

Lt Col Gerald Ross, deputy organising secretary of Ireland from 1952 until his retirement in 1967. He joined the Institution after many years service with the Royal Marines..

Category: Obituaries