LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ONCE TRAINED NEVER FORGOTTEN
You never forget your RNLI training. For our lifeboat crews, the ability to assess a situation and take immediate action is vital. When Isles of Scilly boatman and retired lifeboat Coxswain Andy Howells saw a boat capsize during a wildlife...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1976 January and February 1977
Aberdovey, Gwynedd December 2 and 12.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 29.
Broughty Ferry, Tayside December 12.
Conwy, Gwynedd February 11.
Eastney (B.530), Hampshire December...
Category: Services
Letters
Thank you, Kinghorn I am writing to express my thanks to the Kinghorn D class inflatable lifeboat crew and the RNLI who over the years have made it possible for me to sail my sailboard off Kinghorn secure in the knowledge that if I do have a...
Category: Correspondence
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Relief 52ft Arun: August 24 and 31 D class inflatable: September 7 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 1. 3, 11 and 12. 17, 28 (twice), October 5 and 25 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16, 24,...
Category: Services
The American Steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down, while bound from Australia to Glasgow, with about...
Why She ? It Seems Just As a Term of Familiarity, Affection and Endearment, Perhaps Encouraged By the Original Frequency of Obviously Female Figureheads on the Ships of Old.
Why she ? It seems just as a term of familiarity, affection and endearment, perhaps encouraged by the original frequency of obviously female figureheads on the ships of old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Trawler
Stromness, Orkneys.—19th November, 1938. A steam trawler had stranded at Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, but got off and was beached at Rousay.—Rewards, £24 3*. Sd..
Lifeboat Services June and July 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 8, July 5, 14. 15 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15, 17, 20 (twice) and 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 27,29, 30, July 4,6.
14 (twice) and 21 Aith,...
Category: Services
A Japanese Tanker
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...