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The Long Search

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to each of the crew of the Lerwick, Shetlands, life-boat for the escort service they provided to three...

Category: Services

A leap of faith

Date: Summer 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 600 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2012

When a January storm savaged a sail training crew and their yacht, a lifeboat headed to their aid – but in these violent conditions, what could the RNLI volunteers do to help?

Keen sailor...

Category: Articles

LIFEGUARDS IN THE FLOOD

Date: Summer 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 620 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2017

When a quarter of the country is submerged every monsoon season, flooding in Bangladesh is almost routine. But in July 2015, a flooded inland village called eight beach lifeguards far beyond their ordinary duties. SeaSafe Senior Lifeguard...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth

Date: Autumn 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 462

THE VARIETY OF SERVICES which modern lifeboat crews may be called upon to perform were clearly illustrated by awards made during the period under review in this number of THE LIFEBOAT.

On one occasion the West Mersea...

Category: Articles

Aground Off the Cliffs of Dover

Date: July 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 361

The Sovac Radiant, with the Dover life-boat and three tugs at work (See page 332). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Great Gale of February, 1871

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

Memorial Service at Bridlington.

THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.

Category: Articles

Torbay: SEASIDE SPECIAL BRINGS IN THE CROWDS

Date: Winter 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 626 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2018/19: South/Midlands/East Community News

Hundreds of people defied the rain to support another fantastic Seaside Special at Torbay Lifeboat Station. The Seaside Special is Torbay’s biggest fundraiser of the year and rounds off a week of activities ranging from Walk the Extra Mile...

Category: Articles

Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.

By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...

Category: Articles

Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 88

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Category: Donations

Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1876-7

Date: November 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 110

 

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Category: Charts