LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
VELLUMS FOR THE WALTON CREW Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 2.45 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard received information from the Felixstowe look-out that a barge was in distress near the...
The Wild Side of Scarborough
I LOOK out of my window, and find that the snow is falling thickly, and that the wind is blowing in from the sea. I raise the Bash and listen, and hear the roar of the rising tide upon the beach. It is the boom of the growing...
Category: Articles
A School Lecture on the Life-Boats
THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat Service will, we think, be interested in the following account from a school- master at Willesden of a lecture which he gave after distributing the illustrated leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat...
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The Wind Was Boisterous There Was Rain and the Ribble Looked Most Uninviting With the Rising Tide
The wind was boisterous, there was rain, and the Ribble looked most uninviting with the rising tide.... We watched them going through the drill from the comfort of the boathouse look-out.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the afternoon of the 20th of Novem- ber, 1949, the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a sailing boat was making for Portscatho. The weather was bad and she was in a dangerous position.
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Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
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Services of the Life-Boats In March, April, May and June, 1952. 53 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
The Development of the Lifeboat from Page 58
from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
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We Ask the Questions
The lifeboat service relies heavily on its network of branches, guilds and volunteer fundraisers to bring in the money, so it is important that the best tools for the job are readily available to those who need them.
The...
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From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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