Welcome home Your autumn issue of the journal will, I am sure, give full coverage of the AGM in May and subsequent medal and award presentations, and 1 should like to follow that up by telling you of the wonderful night we all had on the...
Category: Correspondence
ON the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1957, a number of people, children as well as adults, were bathing in the sea off Barmouth beach. About three o'clock somebody raised the alarm that a swimmer was in difficulties, and a local...
Category: Services
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
Category: Articles
Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
Category: Correspondence
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Abergele police had reported that a small boat had capsized off Llandulas, and that her crew of two were swim- ming towards Abergele....
Stranded in rising water while trying to fetch her dog, Caroline could only call 999 and hope that help would make it in time
‘What could it be?’ That’s always the first thought Silloth lifeboat Crew Member Andrew Stanley...
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How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
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Aberdeen, Grampian March 12.
Aith, Highland May 11.
Angle, Dyfed March 31 and April 11.
Anstruther, Tayside May 8.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow April...
Category: Services
SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...
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90 years ago I wonder whether you would be interested in this photograph, taken on Lifeboat Day in Croydon in 1909, 90 years ago? My brother, aged 5 (left), and I, aged 4, carried the tin lifeboat collection boxes during a street parade on...
Category: Correspondence