LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swimmers far out A COUNCIL LIFE GUARD at Sennen Cove, Nick Bryant, although not on duty was down painting his hut on Friday May 16 when he saw two swimmers a long way out to sea. He immediately put out on a surf board and, on reaching the...
Constanze
Six saved from sinking German yachtA service by the Dover lifeboat, the Thames class Rotary Service, on 25 August 1992 has earned her coxswain, Anthony Hawkins, and his crew a letter of appreciation from Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI'...
A Boat
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th August, two youths, aged 15 and 14 respec- tively, took a boat from her moorings in the harbour and proceeded out to sea.
OH getting clear of the harbour, it was noticed by...
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Two calls HASTINGS 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Christopher Cooper and Crew Members Steven Barrow and John K. Ronchetti, was launched at 1534 on the afternoon of Friday, July 13, 1984, after it was reported that a...
Rini
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1956, the lighthouse keeper at Ballinacourty telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the rocks to the east of the lighthouse and that flares had been seen. At nine...
Whose sea is it anyway?
The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
Category: Articles
Winner Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend in Poole Harbour. By Hilary Watkins, Broadmayne, Dorset.
Winner Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend in Poole Harbour. By Hilary Watkins, Broadmayne, Dorset.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Flooding tide A PARTY of four wildfowlers, caravanning at Burnfoot on the Nith Estuary, on the north side of the Solway Firth, set off shooting at about 0730 on Monday January 19. It was about two hours after low water. Two of the party set...
Penton
The motor cruiser Penton, of Cardiff, with three men on board, was making for Barry on the night of the 25th-26th June, when, through a defect in her machinery, she was obliged to anchor near Friars Point. Her anchors dragged and she lighted...
Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
Category: Articles