LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
GIVE IT A GO: STARGAZING
When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above
Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...
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City of Plymouth
City of Plymouth brings the 35ft catamaran Myros into Mayflower Marina after a long tow in 45-knot winds. - View image in PDF
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(Left) the Tank Test Models Were Fitted With a Lawn-Mower Engine, Radio Control and Motion Sensing Instruments for Freerunning Seakeeping Trials.
(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Tows In a Yacht
This photograph was taken by the coxswain, Harold Hayles (see page 499). - View image in PDF
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Gift of a Silver Life-Boat
H.R.H. the Princess Alexandra at the annual meeting (See page 323). - View image in PDF
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Bonita
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.45 oil the evening of the 7th of July, 1957. the Penmon coastguard telephoned to say a flare had been seen between Great Ormes Head and Puffin Island. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 8.10...
Royal Visit for Penlee Crew
HRH Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cornwall, met members of the crew of the Penlee lifeboat during her official visit to Newlyn, where she officially opened the town's new £lm fish market.
The Princess visited the... - View image in PDF
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Relief Fleet - Trent Class Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Countess Mountbatten puts to sea from the RNLI's Poole depot quay aboard the first Trent class lifeboat shortly after naming her Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.. - View image in PDF
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Gorsethorn
DECEMBER 6-7TH. - NEW BRIGH-TON, CHESHIRE. Shortly after five in the evening a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board that the Liverpool steamer Gorsethorn had sent an SOS that she was disabled fifteen miles N.W. by W....
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
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