LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All hands!
Thousands of volunteers and hundreds of staff are needed to provide back-up to the RNLI’s lifesavers – so how does the charity find the right people for the job?
‘The Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches...
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The Fundraisers
Stilgoeing strong On 5 March Riegate and Redhill branch and guild held an Anniversary Dinner at Reigate Manor Hotel.
Nearly 120 people attended the event and guest of honour was entertainer and High Sheriff of Surrey,...
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Rescue at Sea
• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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Ken
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the 5th September two men and two women, visitors to Polruan, put out from Polruan in the hired motor boat Ken to go for a trip to the beach on the west side of Atlantic Bay. When the motor boat neared the beach a heavy...
The S.S. Albion Star
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 23rd of April. 1948, the s.s. Albion Star, of London, was anchored off shore.
Her crew had run out of food, while taking the steamer to a yard to be broken up. A south-westerly breeze was...
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
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Gallant Women
Three women have been thanked by the Institution for their gallantry. One was the purser of the training ship "Moyana", in Southampton Water, who was awarded a vellum. Six cadets had left the ship in a dinghy in a rough...
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C.E.
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 4.46 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress one mile west of Ramore Head. Within ten minutes the life-boat Laiy Scott, Civil Service No. 4, was...
The Once Abandoned Pen-Y-Cei Now Houses the Flourishing Museum.
The once abandoned Pen-y-Cei now houses the flourishing museum.. - View image in PDF
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