The delightful harbour at Islay, with the afloat Thames class lifeboat lying in her sheltered inlet. The ferry to Jura is at the ramp behind her. The boathouse here is at present being rebuilt to provide better facilities for the... - View image in PDF
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In its 140th year of saving lives at sea, New Brighton lifeboat station saw a new arrival in October 2004. The inshore rescue hovercraft, to be named Hurley Spirit, will play a vital role in the RNLI's lifesaving operations on the...
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The new RNLI lifeguard service at Skegness, Lincolnshire, unexpectedly joined forces with the local lifeboat crew when a swimmer was at risk of drowning.
On Monday 20 July, at 5.45pm, Lifeguard Ross Noble was preparing to...
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Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
Category: Correspondence
NOVEMBER 25TH. - SENNEN COVE PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORN: WALL. After a naval and air battle in the Channel some ten miles off Wolf Rock Light, these three life-boats were asked by the coastguard to go out and search for survivors.
cLose up meet the family Building a strong and happy family can be a tough task for anyone but this is exactly what The Lifeboat College is attempting to do for the RNLI. Four members of this charity ‘family’ tell Liz Cook and Carol...
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CONSIDERING what a vast amount of wealth has been every year engulfed beneath the waves since mankind engaged in commerce by sea, it is matter for astonishment that so little has been attempted in an organized and scientific manner for the...
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RICHARD WAKELEY, aged 12, of Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, is probably the youngest editor of a nau- tical review to donate his sales profits to the Institution.
He writes, illustrates and distributes carbon copies...
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Swimmers rescued MABLETHORPE iLB deputy launching authority was informed by a council lifeguard at 1458 on August 6, 1975, that there were two swimmers in difficulties off the 'pipe tunnel', an outfall pipe protected by a groyne,...
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The crew of the Lifeboat R.A.O.B. were summoned on the 29th November, during a moderate N.
breeze and hazy weather, signals of distress having been reported. The men promptly assembled, and at 1 A.M.,...