LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALTON-ON-NAZE, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 26th Feb., 1904, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was aground on the sands. The crew and helpers of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 were at once...
Category: Services
Every second counts
Two lifeguards raced to reach a kitesurfer as he was dragged under water towards rocks. Somehow they had to slow him down
On the afternoon of Tuesday 7 June, RNLI lifeguards watched a...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
some recent publications reviewed EDWARDIAN WORTHING Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town written and published by Rob Blann at £12.95 ISBN 09516277 1 6 Foreword by RaymondBaxter, RNLl vice president and member of the committee of management...
Category: Articles
What's on this Spring
The RNLI is out and about this Spring. There’s a fascinating exhibition on tour, our big annual awards ceremony, and lots of fundraising fun to be had – see you there!
AGM and APA...
Category: Articles
Summer Sands
Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
Category: Poetry
Marguerite
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
New Equipment
• There is a range of Avon yachting clothing available (see below). While extremely functional the garments are still smart, are supple for greater comfort and they can be dry cleaned. Lightweight and medium weight garments are available and...
Category: Articles
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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...
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...