LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats at war
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
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People and Places
Winning hunch The winner of the RNLI's 44th national lottery has the Hunchback of Notre Dame to thank for drawing her ticket! Micky O'Donoughue was playing the role in the New Vic Company's comedy version of 'The Hunchback of...
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Sharing the Work—And the Enjoyment—In a Husband and Wife Partnership Alf and Joan Jenkins Are Joint Honorary Secretaries of Truro Branch They Put Their Combin
Sharing the work—and the enjoyment—in a husband and wife partnership, Alf and Joan Jenkins are joint honorary secretaries of Truro branch. They put their combined help behind such enterprising branch activities as a button auction which... - View image in PDF
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Past and Present
40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...
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Denmark: (Below Left) a 152M Self-Righting Lifeboat Stationed on the West Coast of Jutland Finland: (Below Right) the 205M Steel Harmaja Built to Work In Ice Is One
Denmark: (below, left) A 15.2m self-righting lifeboat stationed on the west coast of Jutland.
Finland: (below, right) The 20.5m steel Harmaja built to work in ice is one of the Finnish Lifeboat Society's largest rescue... - View image in PDF
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Book Reviews
• The first edition of The Small-Boat Skipper's Safety Book by Denny Desoutter (Hollis and Carter, £1.95) was published in 1972. The revised second edition published this year is in the light, no doubt, of after thoughts; but it...
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AUGUST 11TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At the request of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a strong westerly wind, and brought from Colonsay to Islay an expectant...
History laid to rest
The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...
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The Blackpool Life-Boat Maria Noble Landing An Injured Man on 1st March 1968 Coxswain JW Gerrard Is on the Extreme Right
The Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble landing an injured man on 1st March, 1968. Coxswain J.W. Gerrard is on the extreme right.. - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
Category: Services