LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Articles
Your Letters
Nearly saved . . . by a motor lifeboat I was interested in the feature 'Saved by a motor lifeboat', which appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Lifeboat.
There is an interesting story pertaining to this film - I...
Category: Correspondence
Arctic Prince
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
Category: Articles
TRIPLE JUMP
Three trawlermen aground in a gale take a courageous leap of faith …
Jonathan Connor was spending his Sunday evening studying. The trainee crew member was at Kinsale Lifeboat Station, working on an RNLI course, when he...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 4th April, 1961, Dr. T.
Hepburn informed the honorary secre- tary that a man was very ill on the Island of Foula and asked if the life- boat could be placed at his disposal...
Book Reviews
O There cannot be many works of fiction based on the lifeboat service and of these few are likely to ring true to the men who man the boats. Although the majority of people would say that they are well acquainted with the RNLI, its lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings
Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
Fishing Cobles, Motor launch, Pleasure Boat, Speed Boat and Motor Cruiser
EIGHT IN ROUGH SEA Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 1.45 p.m.
on 13th September, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the fishing cobles White Heather, Kate and Violet, My Judith and Emmanuel, the converted motor...