LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Grim But Glorious: the Days of Oar and Sail By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DUNMORE, EAST, Co. WATERFORD.—It having been reported that a large steamer in distress was anchored off Slade, co. Wexford, during a whole gale from the S.8.W. and a very heavy sea, the Life-boat Henry Dodd was promptly launched at 12,15 P.M...
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Bronze for Lochinver coxswain
Remember our rescue story in Spring 2015, reporting how Lochinver and Thurso crews aided a fish carrier during a 13-hour rescue in a gale? Now the Lochinver Coxswain, David MacAskill (above right), is to be awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for...
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Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr, one of the honorary archivists of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, is a true historian and whenever he publishes a paper containing the results of his research he makes available a new and valuable chapter to all those...
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Books
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• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...
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Lifeboat Services
Eyemouth Scotland South Division Hurricane-force winds as two lifeboats search for missing divers The rescue of two skin divers in appalling weather conditions has won Acting Coxswain James Dougal a Silver Medal for Gallantry. Weather and...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the...
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Emanuel
While Coxswain John Swan was on the beach on the 21st October, he observed the fishing- smack Emanuel, of Lowestoft, ground on the N.E. part of the Newcome Sands, while outward bound to fish, owing to the wind falling away and the tide...
The S.S. Linwood
Cromer, Norfolk.—At about 11.10 P.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be in distress a mile S.E.
of the station. The report was confirmed, and the No. 2 motor life-boat,...
Eagle
RAMSGATE.—In answer to signal guns fired by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, on the 12th March, the Life-boat Bradford proceeded in tow of the harbour steamtug Aid to the Sands, at 9.15 AM, and found the Brigantine Eagle, of Waterford, laden...