LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Flying Foam
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—On the morning of the 21st January the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a schooner, although showing no distress signals, was anchored in a very dangerous position about four and a half miles E. by S. of Trwyn Du...
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
Category: Articles
Girl Power
Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 3.5 ^jn. on 26th June, 1965, members of the inshore'rescue'boat crew saw two people waving towels to attract attention at the foot of the cliffs about a quarter of a mile north-east of the station. The IRB...
Lifeboat People
Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry...
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
Mrs Hilda Ford,
AUGUST 1993 Mrs Hilda Ford, a founder member of Margate ladies' guild in 1957 and honorary secretary for many years. She was made an honorary life governor in 1975 having previously been awarded a Gold badge in 1961..
Category: Obituaries