LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Night With the Ramsgate Life-Boat. One Hundred and Twenty Lives Saved
I.—DISASTERS AT SEA. THE LIFE-BOAT TO THE RESCUE.
To lie awake listening to the storm,—to hear the rush of the wind, now moaning in the chimney, now thundering at the windows, against which the rain beats and hustles,—to...
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Father and Son Unite
son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.
However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF
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Wreck of Le Vieux Tigre at Beast Point
This steam trawler went ashore on 27th March, 1935, in a fog, and her crew of eighteen were rescued by the motor life-boat at The Lizard. - View image in PDF
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Tijl Uilenspiegel (4)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Shoreline
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS from many thousands of people, all, as it were, like threads being twisted together to form one rope of great strength, form the basis of Shoreline support for the lifeboat service. Year by year the sum of these...
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Falmouth November 15 1987:
FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBER 15, 1987: harnessed into a helicopter strop, WEM J R Stevenson is lowered gently from the boat davit of his ship HMS Challenger to the deck of Falmouth's 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant after... - View image in PDF
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Surviving at Sea
As an organisation that aims to improve safety at sea – and one that is rooted in the UK’s maritime heritage – the Lloyd’s Register Group (LRG) shares plenty of ground with the RNLI. In 2004 it set up a separate registered charity dedicated...
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There Was a Wealth of Models at the Show—And a Wealth of Knowledge for All Who Liked to Ask Photograph By Courtesy of 'Western Morning News'
There was a wealth of models at the show—and a wealth of knowledge for all who liked to ask photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF
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Brothers Gem
At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the vessel.
The fog was...
CREWS HEAD INLAND
Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...
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