LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...
Ceremonies
Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.
The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.
Sir Max Aitken had...
Category: Inaugurations
A Ferry
If there was ever any doubt that the RNLI's technical team designs its lifeboats so that they are sturdy enough to face the worst possible conditions, then the events of Sunday. 9 September were surely proof enough.
At...
The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
Category: Articles
Page and Moy.
Lifeboats Our 2007 programme includes 21 superb cruises with many fascinating new itineraries - our best ever line up of celebrities and guest speakers.
and to top it all the Ocean Majesty has had a £1 million...
Category: Advertisement
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
Shipwreck Off Brighton
ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
Category: Services
A Sailing Dinghy
Saved boat and three SHOREHAM HARBOUR DLA was informed by HM Coastguard at 1405 on Wednesday July 20, 1977, that a 14' sailing dinghy was half submerged just west of the harbour entrance; one of her crew of three could be seen in the...
Letters
Lerwick lifeboat I read, with interest, James R. Kay's letter regarding Lerwick lifeboat and his uncle's yacht Soldian, which was published in the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
It may be of some interest to Mr Kay...
Category: Correspondence
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Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...