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‘SHE WENT QUICK’

Date: Summer 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 620 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2017

With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety

Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...

Category: Articles

News

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

Man overboard! This is the cry no seagoer wants to hear but how much worse would it be to know that, as you slipped and fell into the water, no one knew you had gone? The lone fisherman or yachtsman has always been in grave danger if they...

Category: Articles

An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...

Category: Articles

A Manx Tale

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

The Isle of Man and will always be synonymous with the RNLI, for it was here in Douglas Bay during the early part of the last century that Sir William Hillary, the founder of the RNLI, witnessed at first hand, the plight of seafaring...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: February 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 151

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS 

PATRONESS HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN

VICE PATRONESS — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS...

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Starting All Over

Date: Autumn 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 546

Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.

Such reliability does...

Category: Articles

Book Reviews

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Mr. Angus MacVicar has produced a work which many people associated with the life-boat service must long have wanted to find, a gripping novel written for the young on the work of a life-boat station. This is Life-boat— Green to White...

Category: Articles

Focus on . . . . Sunderland

Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...

Category: Articles

A Yacht (1)

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Two sailors were rescued from their capsized boat in May this year thanks to the eagle eyes of an 11-year-old boy from South Queensferry. Scott Findlater spotted an object floating in the water from his bedroom window and raised the alarm....