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Blue Peter III Reaches the 'Casualty' Crew Member Ted Hill Who Has (Uncharacteristically) Overturned His Dinghy (Above) Ted 'Exhausted' Is Taken Aboard the Ilb Whil
. . Blue Peter III reaches the 'casualty', Crew Member Ted Hill who has (uncharacteristically) overturned his dinghy. (Above) Ted, exhausted', is taken aboard the ILB while Graham Thorburn and Paddy Hooton, helped by this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boat Crossword—4
LIFE-BOAT CROSSWORD—4 0 The winners of the April crossword were: 1st prize (£1), Dr. J. J. Drever, Brunton Place, Edinburgh, 2nd prize (£1), Mr. R. W. McLaren, Grange Park, Woodland Avenue, Cramleigh, Surrey; 3rd prize (£1),...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
Category: Articles
Steve Shaw Fright) Is Interviewed By Channel Television With the Assistance of Station Chairman Craig Osborne (Centre).
Below (l-r): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: RNLI Family
They're some of the RNLI's most devoted supporters. They love the lifeboats.
They're hungry for knowledge about lifeboats. Some of them give all the money they own to the RNLI. They often write to Stormy Stan...
Category: Articles
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A mare story with a snappy ending! Racehorses rescued during floods AC rocodile making its way lazily down the hallway of a flooded home gave lifeboatman Kevin Keillor the shock of his life..
On 26 April 2000, Kevin and...
On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
Category: Articles
On Exercise By Andrew Gould Assistant Public Relations Officer RNLI
IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...
Category: Articles
Eau de Vie
Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...