LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Testing her mettle
The new RNLI memorial sculpture at Poole encapsulates the charity’s heritage and purpose – but who is behind its design?
It’s 7am and there’s a salty breeze blowing across the flats of Sittingbourne at the edge of...
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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A Team of 24 Students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College London
A team of 24 students from the City and Guild's College Union of Imperial College, London, set out on July 10 to try to set a record for pedalling non stop 3,675 miles round the coast of Britain; they arrived back in London within a few... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Mtu 7, the Largest and Newest of the RNLI's Mobile Training Units
(toft) MTU 7, the largest and newest of the RNLI's mobile training units ready for action outside Rhyl lifeboat station, (above)... while on the other side of the Irish Sea the crew of CourtmacsherTY lifeboat complete a chartwork... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman
Eight years worth of beard was shaved off Gordon Peters and Ray Chapman in front of a large crowd at the Country House Hotel in Ellacombe, Torquay, by local hairdresser Steve Siampourou. The reason was that £231 had been offered for the... - View image in PDF
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Sandi’s shores
One of the first questions to spring to mind meeting comedian, TV and radio presenter, actor, adventurer, author, playwright and journalist Sandi Toksvig is whether there’s anything she’s not good at. ‘Oh, I’m rubbish at so many things –...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1907
Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...
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North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
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A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
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