LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Impulsion
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Rowing Boat and Dinghy
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 7th of September 1957, the police reported that a rowing boat with two girls and two young men on board was in diffi- culties in Colwyn Bay. The life-boat Tillie Morrison,...
Leverton
Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.
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A Yacht (2)
Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...
Wind power in Shetland
The RNLI has installed its first station wind turbine, at Aith, Shetland – the charity’s most northerly lifeboat station. The turbine, a 20kW Westwind unit, was switched on in the Autumn of 2009 and should generate around 40,000kWh a...
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Vedette
TOW FOR YACHT TO HARBOUR Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a small yacht off Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay. There was a light...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 30th of October, 1956, the local doctor tele- phoned the honorary secretary to ask him if the life-boat would take an injured person to the mainland. As the tide would have...
Local Committees
An especial feature of the National Ship- wreck Institution, is the establishment of Local Committees for the management of their boats. As stated in the first number of this Journal, the Parent Institution looks to earnest, hearty...
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Ella (1)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
New handbook for enthusiasts
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2016 is now out. This complete guide to RNLI lifeboats past and present details every lifeboat in our fleet, plus the post-service names and locations of retired vessels. To order your copy, send a...
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