LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
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Dinghies and a Yacht
Crowded hour THE OUTBOARD ENGINE of an inflatable dinghy broke down just as she was clearing Shoreham Harbour eastern breakwater on the afternoon of Sunday, August 1. A message came from HM Coastguard at 1521, saying that the dinghy, with...
Here and There
BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...
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An Aircraft,and Medea
At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.
Three aqua-lung divers, who...
A Dinghy and Team
At 11.30 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, news was received that a small dinghy had broken down one and a half miles off shore. The IRB was launched and the coastguard then reported that a red flare had been sighted from another boat. The IRB -was...
Lady Jane and Fury
Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.4 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that the motor yacht Lady Jane had broken down one mile east of the pier and was signalling for help. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis proceeded at 1.14...
A Dinghy and Mambo
TWO CASUALTIES At 6.52 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting one mile south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at...
Past and Present
100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
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People and Places
Lifeboats in the South Seas - in TongaJust before Christmas, Swanage lifeboat station received news of their old lifeboat, Thomas Markby, which served at the station from 1928 to 1949.
The letter came from the Kingdom of...
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