LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
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Wick's Present Day 48Ft 6In Oakley Class Lifeboat Princess Marina
Wick's Present Day 48Ft 6In Oakley Class Lifeboat Princess Marina. - View image in PDF
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Main: John and Margaret Doig
Main: John and Margaret Doig Picture Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
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The Merchant Cargo Ship Est
Hostage drama Invergordon lifeboat crew came under attack when they went to the aid of the merchant cargo ship fst, where the ship's first mate had allegedly taken his shipmates hostage Lifeboat crew are trained to be ready for anything,...
Feature Lifeboats on the Thames
On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
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Cleric Aid
Rabbi Jonathan Remain (centre right) and other ministers get ready for their sponsored joking session.. - View image in PDF
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Empire Aid
DECEMBER 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 4.50 in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a tug in Cross Channel in Falmouth Harbour, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, which had...
The Sailing Boat Idle Hour
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4 P.M.
on the 28th June, 1939, the crew and helpers had assembled for an exercise launch when the small sailing boat Idle Hour, of New Quay, with a crew of two, was seen drifting to the east of...
(Right) a Fairly Complicated Kit
(Right) A fairly complicated kit - a dismantled outboard powerhead shows how the engines are inversion proofed at the Centre.
(Below) Putting a brave face on it. James Magness from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire gets the... - View image in PDF
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