LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lives on the line
As storms lashed our coasts last Christmas, a crew of sailors found themselves without engine or sail power – and drifting into the path of a 218m cruise liner …
When the Cowes lifeboat...
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ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
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The S.S. Lesrix
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
The Steam Life-Boats for Grimsby and Padstow: A New Departure
IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
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The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
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Functional Clothing Ltd
CLOTHING IN THE WORLD suppliers of weathe off-shore oil ac and sold c! ! tn thp R N ) the United KM unctional Jacket with Contour Hood No. 4 Functional Clothing is ideal for work or leisure and gives all weather comfort and protection. The...
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Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
THE Institution is again issuing a Life- boat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it hopes that many...
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Entertainment of Gold Medallists and Crews
APART from the inspection of the Life-boats on the Thames and the visit to Fulham, everything was done by the Institution, with much generous help from others, to give the British and foreign Life-boatmen a good time while they were in...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED St. Davids and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.
At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at St. Davids that an aircraft on a training flight from the Royal Naval Air Station...