LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SUNSHINE greeted lifeboat people from all parts of the country who began to gather on South Bank, by the River Thames, early on Tuesday May 11 for what was to be a most moving and memorable day.
It was a day which...
Category: Awards
Remembering Mum
When fun-loving Judith Lunan suddenly passed away, it was a huge shock to her family. Then they discovered her favourite charity
‘I know Mum would be so pleased that we are doing something positive in her name,’ says Sarah...
Category: Articles
Leading a Double Life
Whatever the weather, day or night, when the distress call comes, RNLI crew members drop everything and race for their lifeboats. Usually, the only full time member of a crew is the mechanic at all-weather stations and most lifeboat men and...
Category: Articles
Bow Wow Wow
Poppy the Springer Spaniel had a lucky escape on Valentine’s Day after chasing a seagull and falling 90m down a cliff into the sea.
Amazingly, she survived and managed to swim back to huddle at the cliff base. Newhaven’s...
Category: Articles
PASSENGER BOAT EVACUATION ST MARY’S
ST MARY’S | 15 MAY
With 48 passengers onboard, a passenger boat hit trouble off the Isles of Scilly’s Western Rocks, and her skipper sent out a mayday call. Nearby vessels arrived moments later, with a RIB pilot using his boat to...
Category: Articles
Oberon
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 28th August three men, with two small boys and a boatman, put out from Totland Bay in the motor launch Oberon to go fishing. The boat's engine broke down and she drifted on to Shingle Bank, which is in an...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1865
A FOREIGNER, looking at the Wreck Chart of the British Isles, might not unnaturally conceive that a very large proportion of the ships that pass to and from our ports every year were wrecked on our shores. When, however, he came to be...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 143 station life-boats 101 inshore rescue boats 1 70-foot steel life-boat on operational trials 1 44-foot steel life-boat on evaluation trials at Barry Dock LIVES RESCUED 90,321 from the Institution's foundation in...
Category: Services
Hardy Marine
Factory + Brokerage + Sales Hardy motor yachts are built to order with regular input from the owner. The Hardy range also includes the Bosun 20, Fishing 24, Mariner 26 and Commander 32.
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