LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Farewell. Memories of Sixty Years
1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
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Forrester
Search in dense fog A FLARE IN CHAPMAN'S POOL was reported to the deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station at 2130 on Monday, June 14. Visibility was clear at the Coastguard lookout but there was a dense fog bank at sea...
Membership News
And talking of parrots...
What does the word 'polylope' mean to you, apart from two love-struck parrots setting out on a new life together? In fact it represents an opportunity for significant cost savings to the...
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Then And Now
tHen AnD noW First-c lass service The RNLI has been an eyecatching subject for portrayal on stamps for decades. Here is a small selection from the past and a preview of a new set of stamps due to be issued on 13 March. you can order from an...
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R.A.F. Seaplanes and R.A.F. Launch No. 867
APRIL 7TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.35 in the morning a message came from the R.A.F.
that several of their seaplanes had broken adrift from their moorings, with their crews aboard, that they had not enough boats to face the storm,...
Dry run
While the prospect of warmer Summers may seem appealing, the reality of global warming may be more severe flooding
In March this year, 70 members of the RNLI Flood Rescue Team helped test...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1936
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
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Ebenezer
CLOVELLY.—On the 3rd Sept., at 10 A.M., during a strong breeze at N., the smack Ebenezer, of Bideford, being at anchor in a dangerous position off a lee shore, hoisted a signal of distress, whereupon the Lifeboat Alexander and Matilda...
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON.—The Life-boat Young George Irlam was launched at about 2 P.M. on the 24th January, and remained outside the harbour until two fishing-boats, which were in danger during a S.S.W. wind, stormy weather, and a heavy sea, safely entered....
A Sailing Boat
On the 3rd J.
March the Bull Bay Life-boat Eleanor j succeeded in saving 2 sailors, who had j been driven out to sea in their boat, and could liot regain the shore..