LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cabin Cruiser
Cabin cruiser swamped ONE OF APPLEDORE lifeboat station's shore helpers, Mr P. Ford, was out fishing in his own boat on the afternoon of Saturday September 29, 1984, when he saw an 18ft cabin cruiser trying to negotiate the harbour bar,...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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The Gunners' Island
PROBABLY the highest subscription per capita of any unit in the regular forces to the Institution is from the St.
Kilda detachment of the Royal Artil- lery Guided Weapons Range in the Outer Hebrides.
This...
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Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
Nostalgia Direct
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs CLIFF ADAMS SINGERS owieimna THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION The Cliff Adams Singers first presented 'Sing Something Simple1 in 1959 and it became a huge success captivating listeners with medleys of 'old...
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The S.S. Nolisement
MARCH 22ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE: OF MAN. At 7 A.M. the Castletown coastguard telephoned, for information only, that a vessel was ashore at Strandhall, one and a quarter miles E. by N. of Port St. Mary.
Thirty-five...
The Life Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the LIFE-BOAT SATURDAY FUND and their officers, as well as the District and Local Life-boat Satur- day Committees throughout the country, are to be heartily congratulated on the success of their efforts during the...
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"Sublime Impertinence."
OUR District Organizing Secretary in I the North of England has sent us the | following story as an example of " the i value of the sovereign and the power of ; suggestion." It is an excellent example also of the gift, invaluable...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...
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The Danish Schooner Sylphiden
On the llth June the Danish schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov, at anchor in St. Austel Bay, drove into shallow and broken water; when, hoisting a signal of distress, the Institution's life- boat at Polkerris, near Fowey, proceeded to her...