LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli news
Land's End tragedy—parents' appeal The parents of the four Buckinghamshire schoolboys who were drowned off Land's End in May have made an appeal to the public to help them buy a lifeboat. The parents have asked that the fund...
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Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
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White Kitten
Five saved RED FLARES fired by a yacht off Beer Head were reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Lyme Regis ILB station at 1942 on Monday August 13, 1979. Five minutes later, Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 ILB was launched manned by...
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FRASERURGH, SCOTLAND. A life-boat station has been established at Frazerburgh by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in conjunction with the Harbour Commissioners of that port. The life-boat is on the Institution's plan, designed by Mr....
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Timbo, of Whitby
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhoscolyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth belonged to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Vellum Accorded to National Trust Warden
ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...
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People and Places
Malcolm Grant, the winner of the Volvo 440 Li car which was first prize in the RNLI's 60th national lottery owes his thanks to comedian Billy Burden, who drew his winning ticket. The popular comedian, who was curently appearing as Mr...
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Here and There
Committee of Management Commandant Vonla McBride, former director of the WRNS, Christopher Lucy, a stockbroker, and John James, a chartered surveyor, have joined the Committee of Management of the RNLI.
Commandant McBride...
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Strait Talking
The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
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Book Corner
• E. C. B. Lee, O.B.E., c.Eng., F.R.I.N.A., and Kenneth Lee, M.B.B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.G.S., D.I.H., are to be congratulated on their book Safety and Survival at Sea, (Cassell & Co., price £2.50). A vast amount of time has been taken...
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