LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What a difference a year makes
‘As well as a constant resolution to save lives at sea, there has been constant evolution in how we do it,’ said RNLI Chairman Charles-Hunter Pease at our AGM on 22 May.
It was a day of looking...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services September October and November 1982
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ftArun: Octobers Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: September 19 and 26 Aith, Shetland 52ft Burnett: November 4 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in Rather: September 20 (twice) and October 16 Angle, Dyfed 46ft 9in Watson:...
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Lifeboat Services June July and August 1980
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: July 31 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 25, July 18, 20, 28, 29 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 18, 20, 24, August 1,6 (twice), 12 (twice), 18 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class...
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Contents
In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 Including Bronze Medal and Vellum services Blackpool Illuminated 16 Jon Jones looks at the RNLI's latest Visitor Centre and the new lifeboat...
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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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Your Letters
What's the cover story? The cover of the Spring issue of The Lifeboat certainly sparked some lively correspondence last quarter. Some of you thought it was a refreshing change, others weren't so keen.
Here follows...
Category: Correspondence
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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Members' Page
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
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Launches
ABERDEEN ON-124S(17-24):Mar 9,Apr 9.15 D-536:Mar 27,Apr 9 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr9(x2).10 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Apr 22,25 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28)Aprn AITH ON-123Z(17-14):)an 30,Mar 9,27 ALDEBURGH ON-ll93(l2-34):Feb11.
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Offshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1975
Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 15.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork November 3 and 6.
Baltimore, Co. Cork September 13, October 10,26 and November 11.
Barrow, Cumbria September 2 and November...
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