LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your shout
My husband was involved in the rescue of a surfer reported on page 18 of your Autumn 2012 issue. He was pretty shaken up by the experience and we'd like to emphasise the survivor's learning, that surfers should never go out alone. We...
Category: Articles
A Boat (2)
JUNE 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Seven soldiers had gone fishing in a small boat. There was a dense fog.
Nothing was found, and it was learned later that the men had been picked up by a trawler. An...
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MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND BEAUMARIS, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. A report had been received that an aeroplane was in distress and another that three men had baled out of an aeroplane, presumably the same one, but nothing could...
Shoreline
Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.
The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...
Category: Articles
Bose
The Bose® WAVE® music system Superb performance and style The streamlined WAVE music system produces a richness of sound you'd ordinarily expect only from bigger, more expensive hi-fis.
Bose patented dual...
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS HENRY OWEN, on his retirement, after serving 15 1/2 years as Bowman, 4 1/4 years as Second Coxswain, and 13J$ years as Cox- swain of the Rhosneigir Life-boat, a Certifi- cate of Service and a Pension.
To THOMAS...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) WORK.
The Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts...
Category: Articles
Embla
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 4.45 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a small vessel was seen to be in a dangerous position S. by E. of the Splaugh Rock.
A moderate but increasing N.E. gale was blowing, with heavy rain and a...
Antiques Aid RNLI
Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.
Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...
Category: Donations
A Boat
Anglers all at sea Three anglers in an ill-equipped 12ft open boat had a lucky escape at Penarth on 28 February 1989 when their anchor started dragging in a Force 7 wind and 8ft to 13ft seas and their outboard engine failed to...