LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
After 54 Years
The Institution has received a gift from two ladies in Toronto, Canada, who wrote that they remembered seeing the Walton-on-the-Naze liferboat going out on service in the spring of 1889..
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From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...
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Adventures of An Emmett
A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...
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Around the Coast
Barrow branch has set itself the target of raising £26,000, the estimated cost of reengining and refitting its lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson, Herbert Leigh. The halfway mark, £13,000, was passed last...
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St. Abbs Has Many Young Visitors In the Summer and the Life-Boat Collecting Box Overlooking the Harbour Is Not Forgotten
St Abbs Has Many Young Visitors In The Summer and The Life-Boat Collecting Box Overlooking The Harbour Is Not Forgotten. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
April
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services
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Rescue of two cut off by tide Tenby's D class lifeboat was called out to rescue two young men who were cut off by the tide at Waterwynch Point on 23 August.
The sea was rough but the crew members displayed skill,...
A Motor Boat, Soloist and Ruskina, a Sailboard and other Boats
Multiple casualties for Atlantic 21 in winds up to Force 10 An arduous service by the West Mersea Atlantic 21 lifeboat, carried out in very rough conditions with the crew using their initiative and local knowledge to assist a large number of...
Listings
Daniel L Gibson A £2M Severn class lifeboat was officially named at Hull Marina on Thursday, 24 July 2003.
The cost of the lifeboat, which is now part of the relief fleet, was met by a substantial bequest from the...
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