LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dowssabell
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 10.52 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coxswain superintendent was notified by the coastguard that a small boat had broken down one and a half miles northeast of the Outer Binks buoy. There was a near gale from the...
A Speed Boat
Life-boat 70-001. Bristol Channel - At 12.10 p.m. on 28th March, 1967, a speedboat was reported in a position one mile south of Mixon shoal buoy. There was a strong north west by westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two hours before low...
Lavender
OCTOBER 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 5.35 in the morning the coastguard reported red flares at Goodwin Knoll. A moderate north-north-east breeze was blowing, but the sea was heavy. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 6.3 and found...
Lifeboat People
Long service Early last year members of Bognor Rotary Club presented an inscribed chair for Selsey lifeboat station's crew room. It was in memory of the late Mr R. D. Bray, a Rotarian who had been associated with Bognor Regis RNLI branch...
Category: Articles
Inset Right- the Band of the Royal Marines
Inset right- The band of the Royal Marines entertain the crowds. - View image in PDF
Photo: Kees Brinkman. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Aran Islands' Facilities Are Due for a Makeover
Above: The Aran Islands' facilities are due for a makeover. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
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An Aeroplane
29th July. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but the life- boat found nothing.—Rewards, £15 17s..
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1904
Jan. 1.—Six fishermen rescued fifteen of the crew of the barque Faulconnier, of Dun- kirk, which was wrecked at Travara, near Courtmacsherry, in hazy weather, a strong E.S.E. wind and rough sea. The men had taken to their boats, but it was...
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Dasher
Longhope Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and Thurso Second Coxswain Duncan Munro received the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum for two separate services on the same stormy day (mentioned in the winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat)....