LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Atlantic College Celebrates 25 Years
THE United World College of the Atlantic is 25 years old this year. What has this to do with the RNLI and what is Atlantic College anyway? Those who are familiar with the history of the college might well consider it the birth place of the...
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Classifieds
R DVD NEW! HEALTH Featuring the building and never-before-seen action of the RNLI's latest all weather and inshore lifeboats Tamar and Atlantic 85 Please send this slip with a cheque payable to _ RNLI(Enterpnses) Ltd to Image Resource...
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1956. 66 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 34 times and rescued 31 lives.
ANGLERS IN DISTRESS IN PLYMOUTH SOUND Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.8 early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the Yealm...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 96 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 53 times and rescued 15 lives.
t [BOAT FOUND AFTER MESSAGE FROM HELICOPTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at...
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Press On K. 263
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
The Appeal of the Press
THE urgent appeal which the Prince of Wales made in his Presidential Address for increased financial support of the Life-boat Service was taken up at once in the Press, and a number of papers supported and reiterated the appeal in their...
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Notre Dame De Toutes Aides
A telephone mes- sage from the Kentish Knock Light Vessel, in the early morning of the 7th April, reported the stranding of the schooner Notre Dame de Toutes Aides, of Nantes, on the sands. The Margate Life-boat attempted to launch, but the...
Fred and Buster Safe After Their Ordeal on the Frozen Lake Behind Them (Photo Mercury Press)
Fred and Buster, safe after their ordeal on the frozen lake behind them. (Photo Mercury Press). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Give it a go: Walking the coast
With a combined total of more than 10,000 miles waterproof boots. to explore, our coastal paths are some of the most epic walking routes in the world. Alex Ellis-Roswell, almost 8 months into his 2-year coastal walk that will...
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Cite d'Aleth
Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...