LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Douglas Head and Harbour 1974 Note Lifeboat Boathouse and Slip In Outer Harbour Or Crough; Fort Anne Above Inner Harbour; and Si Mary's Rock With Its Tower Of
Douglas Head and Harbour, 1974. Note lifeboat boathouse and slip in outer harbour, or Crough; Fort Anne, above inner harbour; and Si Mary's Rock with its Tower of Refuge at bottom right of picture.
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Category: Photographs
Sylvia
Longhope, Orkneys. — Early on the morning of the 31st of January, 1957, the fishing yawl Sylvia, of Kirkwall, put out for lobster fishing. Before she was due to return a strong gale blew up, and as it was known that it would be extremely...
Books
Book review Trafalgar - the men, the battle, the storm By Tim Clayton and Phil Craig Published by Hodder and Stoughton ISBN 0340830263 Price: £20 As SeaBritain 2005 gets underway, Trafalgar takes the reader back 200 years to what the...
Category: Articles
Letters
Lottery—win and share This morning I had numerous bills in the first post and was wondering how to pay them when I opened your letter of July 21 notifying me of my tremendous luck in winning £1,000 in the RNLI national lottery. I thank...
Category: Correspondence
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1897-98
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Letters
The RNLI in Ireland Having been for more than 21 years honorary secretary of one of the busiest lifeboat stations in Ireland, I was naturally much interested by the fine article in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT by my friend Brian Clark,...
Category: Correspondence
Letters
A voluntary service In NEWS POINT on page 41 of your autumn 1986 issue, you state that a majority of those questioned in a recent public opinion survey, believe that the Government should fund the lifeboat service, if not entirely, at least...
Category: Correspondence
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1893
Jan. 11.—Five men waded into the sea and saved the crew of three men from a fishing boat which had been capsized in a surf at Shering- ham, Norfolk—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 11.—Four men put off in a boat and saved one of two...
Category: Articles
Two Fishing Cobles
On the 6th February, two fishing-cobles, which had put to sea from this place to pursue their ordinary avocations, were overtaken by a heavy gale, and ran back to the Haven, but were unable to enter, on ac- count of the heavy seas which...