LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI lottery and Mini draw
DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...
Category: Articles
Dear reader
My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.
I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...
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Commandant Vonla McBride CB BA
Commandant Vonla McBride CB BA - Life Vice President.
Category: Obituaries
The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
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Classification of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
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On 9Th July, 1968, the Torbay Life-Boat Princess Alexandra of Kent,
On 9th July, 1968, the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent, using radar, found a stranded ferry in dense fog and took off and landed 126 passengers and a dog in one go.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Countess Mountbatten of Burma Addresses the Meeting Prior to the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall London on 16 May 1989
The Countess Mountbatten of Burma addresses the meeting prior to the presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 16 May 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News and Views
SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat D class lifeboat D-479 M*Y Buili 1995 Cost £11,275 Funding Gift of Or May Road ThaCftw Helmsman Amoi Bewick tor his 'outstanding skill, calm leadership and unswerving deter mi na lion lo perform a hfesavmg service'...
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Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
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