LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Cruiser
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.45 on the after- noon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that he had a white object under observation, which might be a capsized yacht, and advised the launching of the life-boat...
Northern Star
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.25 p.m. on I3th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties just outside the breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.50 in a rough sea and south westerly gale. It was three hours after...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN ISO NOTES OF THE QUARTER 151 TENTH INTERNATIONAL LIFE-BOAT CONFERENCE 155 NAMING CEREMONIES - CROMER, GORLESTON AND NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA . . 157 PRESIDENT'S 25™ ANNIVERSARY .. .. ...
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Despite Gale Force Winds and Driving Rain About 1000 People Attended the Service of Dedication on April Jo of Abersoch's New Atlantic 21 Wolverhampton the Ilb T
Despite gale force winds and driving rain, about 1.000 people attended the service of dedication on April JO of Abersoch's new Atlantic 21, Wolverhampton. The ILB, together with her tractor and boathtntse, provided b Wolverhampton... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Michael Berry St.Helier
Coxswain Michael Berry, St Helier On September 3, 1983, Coxswain Berry took his lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King, three miles in among rocks to rescue three people from the yacht Cythara in a force 9 strong... - View image in PDF
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David Herbert
David Herbert from Porlishead, near Bristol, is a hardy fellow as this picture shows. During a recent skiing holiday in Austria he was sponsored by friends and members of Porlishead Yacht and Sailing Club to ski a slalom race wearing little... - View image in PDF
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The Power Behind Abersoch!
Nine businessmen, all friends and members of South Caernarfon Yacht Club (and fondly known locally as 'The fat boys'), decided to have a bash in aid of the RNL1 at the end of the 1999 sailing season. A dinner dance with auctions,... - View image in PDF
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Happy Birthday!
The West Wight guild celebrated its 25th anniversary on 9 May 1996 with a successful buffet supper at the Royal Solent Yacht Club in Yarmouth.
At the event, which was attended by almost 100 people including the president,... - View image in PDF
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Martlet
It may have been a fairly straightforward service but there were some interesting sidelines. In the words of Captain Cowell, the station's honorary secretary at Douglas in the Isle of Man: 'At 1055 on Sunday 1 June the lifeboat,...
L.T.Harry
Yachtsman transferred in 'appalling9 conditions A service by Weymouth lifeboat on 13 April 1992 has Jed to the Director sending a letter of appreciation to Second Coxswain David Pitman, the station's Honorary Medical Adviser Dr Will...