LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plans get the green light
The Borough of Poole has granted the RNLI planning permission, allowing us to commence build work on our new All-weather Lifeboat Centre. This decision is a monumental one that will save the RNLI millions of pounds, bringing future...
Category: Articles
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
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From the Director
Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.
A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...
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Duckhams
Duckhams has a history of looking after engines.
We developed Europe's first Multigrade.
We launched the world's first 20W/50.
Today, whatever the engine, there still isn't a...
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Merchant Shipping Acts Amendment Act, 1873
IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
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Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
TOWN & COUNTRY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp y the finest ™ Driveways money can buy , V Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.
Beneath the surface is a unique fibre...
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Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
The View from the Upper Terrace of the Sea City Walls Will As This Artist's Impression Shows Be a Dramatic One In This Vista from the North West Side of the City the Various L
The view from the upper terrace of the sea city walls will, as this artist's impression shows, be a dramatic one.
In this vista from the north west side of the city, the various levels of terraces, with their landscaped... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Film men rescued BRONZE MEDAL FILMING OF A STUNT for the latest James Bond film at Beachy Head, East Sussex, on Tuesday, December 9, 1986, took a dramatic turn when a 17ft outboard-powered Dory, recovering equipment from...
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