LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
Newmarket Charity Race Day
THE RNLI was the beneficiary of the 1983 Newmarket Charity Race Day on Saturday June 25 when just over £13,500 was raised for the lifeboats. Although the morning began dull and overcast, by midday the cloud had dispersed and the sun...
Category: Articles
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At ii p.m. on ist August, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretarythat a critically ill patient needed urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 11.59 and...
Britain and America
• Britain and America - an English language primer by Dr. Maria Alpers and Dr. Herbert Voges (Velhagen & Klasing Berlin und Bielefeld) includes an account of a service by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to the Dutch oil ...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.46 p.m. on 6th July, 1967, while the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was on exercise after engine overhaul, it was reported that a boy was stranded on Porthkerry beach at the Bull Nose. The tide was flooding...
Ex-Coxswain Murdo Sinclair
Ex-coxswain Murdo Sinclair died on igth July, 1965, at the age of 81. He had been coxswain of the Barra Island life-boat for over fifteen years and was awarded the silver medal of the Institution in 1943 for taking the life-boat forty miles...
Category: Obituaries
Norwegian Institution Will Be 75 In September
The Norwegian Life-boat Institution Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning, which was founded in 9th July, 1891, will celebrate its 75th anniversary in September in Oslo.
The celebration will also mark the completion of...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (8)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 2.37 p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, a dinghy was reported in difficulties four miles north east of the station. The IRB was launched at 2.45 in a light westerly breeze and moderate sea. The tide was...
Safely Ashore - One
Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right) being landed from the St Peter Port (CI) Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold on 7 January. The lifeboat spent over four hours in squally weather and 15ft seas... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats Go Green?
The world's first motor-sailing lifeboat? It would undoubtedly save fuel and probably be great fun for the crews, but could it manage the 32-knot service speed? Sadly, this isn't the latest product of the fertile minds of the Trials... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs