LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
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Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...
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The Fishguard Crew In London
AT the Annual Meeting of the Gov- ernors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on Thursday, the 28th April, Coxswain Howells and the crew of the Fishguard Life-boat were presented by the Prince...
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The Fishing Trawlers Perseverance, and the Ellen and Ann
LLANDUDNO.—The Sunlight No. 1 Lifeboat, manned by its efficient crew, rendered its first service in saving life during the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast on the 7th October. Early that morning two fishing trawlers from Hoylake,...
On Passage With the R.N.L.I.
The passages of two new life-boats to their stations are described here by men who were aboard. The first account, reproduced by courtesy of the Eastern Daily Press in which it appeared on 28th October, 1964, is written by Dr. P. S. Barclay,...
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Lymington Right the Way Round the Isle of Wight
How long would it take two canoeists, paddling inflatable canoes, to travel from Lymington, right the way round the Isle of Wight and back to Lymington again? That was the question put to everyone entering a competition organised by Rob... - View image in PDF
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Abersoch Breakwater Was 'Opened' In 1927 By the Then Lord Howe Who Arrived for the Ceremony By Lifeboat
Abersoch breakwater was 'opened' in 1927 by the then Lord Howe who arrived for the ceremony by lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Feature: the RNLI Thanks You
The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd...
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The Salvors of Property on the English Coasts
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
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