LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gwylan II
LIFE-BOAT-HELICOPTER EXERCISE SAVES THREE New Quay, Cardiganshire. On the evening of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, the life-boat St. Albans was out on exercise with a helicopter when the helicopter crew saw the rowing boat Gwylan 11 of New...
Functional Clothing Ltd
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Support Our Stations
SOS Day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is on Friday 28 January. On last year’s SOS Day, supporters raised over £500,000.
RNLI crew members are well known for going the extra mile when it comes to saving lives at...
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Harmonious II
AUGUST 7TH. - ABERDEEN. At 10.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was burning red flares five miles away, south-east of Collieston. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.
The No. 1...
At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
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A Charity Competition
A CHAKITY competition, in which the Committee of Management have given permission for the Institution's name to be included, is to be started at the beginning of next year by the Nestle and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk...
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Seafarer II
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternooon of the 30th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message from the honorary secretary of the Bridlington life-boat station that the fishing boat Seafarer II of Bridlington had broken...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Porthcawl, Glamorganshire.—The fish- ing boat Lucky Boy, with a crew of four, got into difficulties on the afternoon of...
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Book Reviews
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
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Boy Jim
On the morning of the 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat, south of Gorleston pier, was driving ashore and making distress signals. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...