LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rose Valley, of Wick
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.2 p.m. on 2nd May, 1966, it was reported that a small fishing boat was drifting on to rocks at St. John's Point, Mey. Thelife-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 6.30 in a slight south...
OUT OF REACH
A father swam out to stop his daughter drifting away in an inflatable dinghy, but couldn’t reach her. Thankfully, there were willing RNLI volunteers who could
On Saturday 30 June 2018, Blackpool Crew Members Iain...
Category: Articles
Terry Waite Attended the Naming Ceremony of the New Harwich Inshore Lifeboat Sure and Steadfast
Terry Waite attended the naming ceremony of the new Harwich inshore lifeboat Sure and Steadfast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the Meridian
THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...
Category: Services
NORTH OF ENGLAND AND ISLE OF MAN Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: English Martyrs School/Steve Hope, RNLI/(Tom Collins, Dave Kneen, Nigel Millard), Rossall School, Chris Smith, Sophie Whitehouse
Welcome to your community news for the north of England and the...
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Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
Qui Vive
Walton and Frinton, Essex - at 10.48 a.m. on 3oth July, 1967, it was learnt that a motor cruiser with engine trouble had made fast to the Kentish Knock lightvessel and that the master of the lightvessel had requested that the lifeboat tow...
Taste of the Past
Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF
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Bose
• When it was introduced, Sound & Vision said it delivered "possibly the best-reproduced sound many people have ever heard." • II can ivpUe an entire multi-component •Oeivn -.vvlein im ludinii t i n -...
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Blenwatch the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Donated to the Rnli By Fred Olsen Lines Was Presented to (I) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston a Deputy Chairman of the Institution By Peter R
Blenwatch, the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat donated to the RNLI by Fred Olsen Lines, was presented to (I.) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, by Peter Robinson, Fred Olsen's passenger director... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs