LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Storm Force celebrates 30 years
Happy 30th birthday to Storm Force, the RNLI’s action-packed club for under 11s.
Born in 1985 and launched at the London Boat Show by actors from TV’s Grange Hill, the RNLI kids’ club, Storm Force, is 30 this year. Look...
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Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club
Surrounded by fellow members, Tom Pearson, Commodore o/Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club, hands a cheque to Colin Nibbs, chairman of Leamington Spa branch, on his left. Miss Julia Johnstone, branch honorary secretary, holds a specially inscribed... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Solent:
(left) Solent: length overall, 48ft 6in; beam 14ft; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 27 tons; maximum speed, over 9 knots; range at full speed, 240 nautical miles. The Solent, introduced in 1969, is a development of the 48ft 6in Oakley and she... - View image in PDF
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British Geological Marine Survey Unit
Representatives of the British Geological Marine Survev Unit are seen presenting a cheque for £1,300 to Coxswain Peter Murray of the Anstrttther lifeboat. The monev is to go towards the Doctors Appeal and is one of many donations given... - View image in PDF
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Primrose
The fishing-boat Primrose, of Llandudno, with two men on board, got into diffi- culties on 18th October in a strong W.
wind, and was blown out to sea. The matter was reported a few minutes before 6 P.M., and the Life-boat...
American Ship Torpedoed
Early in 1945 the German U-boats renewed their attacks on shipping close to the British coasts and one of the first ships to suffer was an American steamer which was torpedoed off South Wales. She was taken in tow, but broke away in a gale...
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Fisher Lass
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.56 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was flying distress signals off Tynemouth beach. The life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton...
Penarth - D Class
Guests and crew members with Penarth's new D class lifeboat at the handing over ceremony on 16 August 1989. Mrs Roma Cresswell and her husband John are in the centre flanked by crew members, with station honorary secretary Captain Graham... - View image in PDF
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A New D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
A new D class inflatable lifeboat, the gift of Warminster and District branch, was dedicated at Horton and Port Eynon lifeboat station on Monday, May 25. Major D. S. Fan, who handed over thelifeboat, andMrsFarrare in the centre of the... - View image in PDF
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