LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The R.N.L.I, In Pakistan
AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...
Category: Articles
Index to Advertisers
Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd 233 Classified Advertisements 279 Coastal Radio Ltd. 231 Cogswell & Harrison Ltd. 235 Dodson-Bull Carpet Co 229 Francis Searchlights 239 Gallaher Ltd Back cover Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd 205 LM.B.E....
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A Photograph Taken from the Cockpit of the Whirlwind Helicopter As It Approached to Land at the Detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other Detachments of 22 Squadron Are Located at V
A photograph taken from the cockpit of the Whirlwind helicopter as it approached to land at the detachment at R.A.F. Chivenor, North Devon. Other detachments of 22 Squadron are located at Valley, Anglesey, and Thorney Island, Hampshire..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pearl and a Catamaran
Catamaran in distress THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Lyme Regis inshore lifeboat station was informed by Portland Coastguard at 1135 on Monday May 28, 1979, that a red flare had been fired from a white boat about l'/2 miles south of Beer Head...
Severn
Length 17m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft) Displacement 37.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots Range 250 n. miles Crew 6 Construction FRC. - View image in PDF
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A Fine Service at Broughty Ferry
ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...
Category: Services
A long trawl
Second Coxswain Martyn Hagan was just sitting down to his tea on 26 June when a call came through from Humber Coastguard. ‘We have a little job for you,’ the Coastguard said. The ‘little’ job involved rescuing the 18m Hartlepool-registered...
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Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Feature: Rapid Response
Guyana has become the latest location to suffer flooding - and the RNLI was there to help. Around the world it has been a year of huge waves and violent storms. Thousands lost their lives in the Indian Ocean tsunami while, at home, hurricane...
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CHILD WAS SICK At 3.45 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the local doctor received a request from Inishmaan Island to attend to a sick child. There was a slight sea with a gentle north-westerly breeze. It was high water. At 4.30 the life-boat...