LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Otra
On the 5th June, during a dense fog with a rough N.E. sea running and a moderate N.E.
breeze, a full-rigged ship ran ashore on the rocks opposite the end of the head- land sea wall. As quickly as possible the crew of the No...
News
We have lift offHovercraft to join RIMLI's fleet The first RNU rescue hovercraft will be in operation as early as January 2003, located in Morecambe. The decision to go ahead was made by the RNLI Executive Committee after successful...
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Books
Books Destroyer An anthology of first-hand accounts of the war at sea 1939-1945 Edited by Ian Hawkins Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 1844860086 paperback £9.99 Ian Hawkins cleverly blends excerpts from other books on the Second...
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Greenhaven
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of February, 1956, the Malin Head radio station reported that the motor vessel Greenhaven, of Newcastle, had wire- lessed that her engine had broken down five and a...
H.M.S. Puncher
Troon, Ayrshire.—Early on the 21st of February, 1949, H.M.S. Puncher, a naval landing ship with a crew of eighteen, left Troon for Port Glasgow, in tow of two tugs. A south-westerly gale got up, with a very heavy sea, and the Puncher snapped...
Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen
THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...
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The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat at North Sunderland
The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat at North Sunderland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Keeping the Pace During the 2000 South Caper Cycle Challenge In South Africa
Keeping The Pace During The 2000 South Caper Cycle Challenge In South Africa. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...
A Miles Training Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the af ternoon of the 29th of January, 1949, the police reported an aet-opttie down in the sea about a mile off shore between Lancing and Shoreham, and the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...