The RNLI team that went to Mozambique in March last year helped to save thousands of lives. The new Rapid Reaction Unit will continue this vital lifesaving effort.. - View image in PDF
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles
You can raffle a gallon of White Horse anywhere; this bottle of whisky, donated by its distillers, raised £230.50 at Campbeltown Agricultural Show last August. The picture shows Campbeltown ladies' guild president, Mrs A. Wallace,... - View image in PDF
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FROM THE DAYS OF OAR AND SAIL TO MODERN HIGHPOWERED, HIGH-SPEED TWIN OUTBOARD OR DIESEL ENGINES.
Category: Articles
On the morning of the 26th March these two Life-boats were~ again engaged on similar service, fourteen fishing-boats being in danger off Gourdon, and four off Johnshaven..
During the four weekends before Christmas Captain Gordon Wilson, owner of the 60 seat cruiser Fantasia, ran 'Cruise with Santa' trips through Liverpool docks in aid of the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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MIGHTY waves! see how they're raging! How the heavens are rent in twain! Hear the shrieks from yonder vessel! Think you, are the cries in vain ? Launch the Lite-boat! Launch the Life-boat! Echo cries, There's none at hand ! Naught to...
Category: Poetry
Newbiggin fundraisers had a busy time last summer - just days after moving back into their refurbished boathouse the Annual Harbour Day was held and, together with proceeds from lifeboat week, over £3,000 was raised.. - View image in PDF
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1955, the coastguard reported that he had seen red flares three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion. At 5.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens put...