LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
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Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
Big Cat
Trawler driven ashore in Force 9 southerly gale and 30ft seas Valentia - Ireland Division Valentia's Arun class lifeboat Margaret Frances Love was involved in a major incident on 13 January 1989 when the large, Brixham-registered trawler...
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 14 November 1988, show that so far in 1988: The RNLI's lifeboats had been launched 3,387 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,099 lives had been saved (an average of...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
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Spotter's Guide
Back by popular demand, TTra Lifeboat brings you the definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat classes - starting this issue with the all-weather lifeboats… Severn The Severn is the largest of the fleet and Is designed to lie afloat....
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The Advent of the Motor-Boat
THIS year has been one of exceptional interest with regard to the development of Marine Motors, and it will be satis- factory to the supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to know that the subject of placing motors in...
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Sabrina and Pen Cw
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the harbour master reported that the yacht Sabrina had parted her moorings and was drifting on a lee shore with one man on board. The life-boat St. Albans was...