LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aberdeen supports Cowes
Aberdeen Asset Management is supporting the Cowes Lifeboat Station appeal, which is raising funds to establish a new site four minutes closer to Solent – the stretch of water between the south coast of England and the Isle of Wight. Aberdeen...
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Now showing: Lifeboat Heroes
Lifeboat Heroes, the RNLI documentary shown on the History channel last April, is now available on DVD.
Ben Fogle tells the RNLI story in the main feature. The DVD also includes special extras, such as dramatic real-life...
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Lifeguards award
The Alison Saunders’ Lifeguarding Award 2010 will be presented to Jamie Rowlands and Andy Waterfield of Polzeath Beach, Cornwall, for rescuing two surfers on 29 October.
In a demonstration of seamanship worthy of an...
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An Aeroplane (194)
JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
Queen
Nov. 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the New Brighton Stage that a fishing boat appeared to be out of control and drifting. Later flares were seen off the Rip Rap Buoy. A moderate S.S.E. gale was...
H.M. Trawler Braes of Buckie
MAY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
A report was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore two miles south of McArthur Head, Islay, and at 8.30 at night the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched. The...
Minnie and Star of Hope
MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
As...
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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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
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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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