LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
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. . . to a Lifeboat
. . . to a lifeboat Torbay's inshore lifeboat was called out to pluck the girl from the rocks and take her across the bay to Haldon Pier.. - View image in PDF
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Introduction
IF there be one subject more than another that might be expected to command the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great Britain, it surely must be the safety and welfare of those of her sons " whose business...
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Optic Illusion:
Optic illusion: it's difficult to ignore the lifeboat collecting box at the Nautilus Hotel in Benllech, North Wales. Wil and Jean Owen built their Lifeboat Bar after moving from Moelfre two years ago and have obviously taken some of the... - View image in PDF
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A Drilling Rig
ROUGH SEA FACED IRB SAVE A drilling rig with men aboard off Hunterston was reported in trouble on 10th March. As assistance was required, the honorary secretary instructed the IRB at Largs, Ayrshire, to launch.
She launched...
Jumping for joy
Fearless RNLI supporters jumped into the record books in June when they smashed the record for the most tandem skydives in one day.
On Saturday 14 June, 323 fundraisers around the UK jumped from a height of 3,048m, with 25...
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Bluebelle
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the 12-feetboat Bluebelle, which was fitted with an outboard motor, had been last seen at two...
Santa Maria
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.50 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the police at Brighton that a small yacht was in difficulties close inshore off Rotting- dean. At seven...
A Fishing Boat
CRUDEN, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 9 o'clock on the morning of the 26th August, during a strong E. gale and heavy sea, a fishing-boat came into the bay, but, being unable to make the harbour, the Life-boat Peep o' Day went to her...
Dorian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 12th of September, 1954, a man at Sark reported that the motor yacht Dorian had left Sark, with six people on board, for Guernsey at six o'clock that evening and ought to have...