LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Healthspan
Good nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy lifespan.
From the day we are born,good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways that each of us can help ourselves to a...
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Modern Motor Life-Boats: Mr Barnett's Book
IN the last issue of The Life-boat a review was published of Modern Motor Life-boa's of the Institution, by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., who has been the Institution's con- sulting naval architect for the past twenty-eight...
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David Jolly (Tiller Master)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER Bought by those who need the Best For Wheel or Tiller Among the thousands sold were those to the first four multihulls home in the 1976 OSTAR and to a 40ft Wharram catamaran which sailed from Australia to the...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE summer months are practically the high season of the Life-boat Saturday Fund, and throughout the country, north, south, east and west, the various Local and District Committees, including the Ladies' Auxiliaries—without whose...
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The long view
One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
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Four Men Rescued from French Trawler
AT 5.50 a.m. on 2yth October, 1963, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary of the Youghal life- boat station, Commander B. Arbuth- not, that the French trawler Fee des Ondes was ashore in Youghal Bay. The position given,...
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Even More on the Lagos Pilot Boat
Even more on the Lagos Pilot Boat I have been following the letters on the Lagos pilot boat with interest. This is partly because the Queen was originally propelled by water jets and the photograph with Mr Powell's letter in the Autumn... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ballylesson
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.25 a.m.
on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a collision had occurred off Pluckington Bank buoy and that a coaster was sinking. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at...
Grace Darling
Grace Darling was the last of the 21 Liverpool class lifeboats to be built and spent almost half her service life at North Sunderland and at Youghal in Ireland. Her coxswain at North Sunderland was awarded a Bronze... - View image in PDF
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The Belgian Motor Trawler Jeannine
FEBRUARY 7TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 9.20 A.M. the coastguard at Porthleven reported a vessel apparently indistress half a mile to the S.S.W. A W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was...