LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
Category: Articles
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church Oystermouth Commemorating the Loss of the Eight Crew of the Lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales on Apr
The Mumbles Lifeboat Memorial Window at All Saints Church, Oystermouth, commemorating the loss of the eight crew of the lifeboat Edward, Prince of Wales on April 23, 1947, on service to ss Samtampa, was unveiled on May 6 by the Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Membership rates increase
If you’re a Shoreline member of the RNLI, the rate of your membership is rising for the first time in 4 years: it will now cost an additional £2. RNLI Governors are being asked to pay an additional £8 per...
Category: Articles
A British Aeroplane (4)
OCTOBER 27TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a British aeroplane had crashed in the sea. The weather was fine, the sea calm. At 2.20 the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched...
Queen
WEXFORD.—During a very strong breeze from the W. and a heavy sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing smack Queen, of Arklow, which had stranded on the North side of the entrance to Wexford Harbour, at about 7 P.M. on the 29th of...
The Rev. Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwith
By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat
ANXIOUS PARENTS Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.35 a.m. on 2oth May, 1964, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the parents of two youths who had not returned from a fishing trip in an 18-foot motor boat were...
None (3)
Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 August 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,058 times (an average of 9 launches a day) 585 lives were saved (an average of two a day) Some 6% of all...
Category: Articles
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason for...
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