LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).
• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...
Category: Articles
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
Members of the Slough Branch of the RNLI Looking at Slough Parks Department's Floral Tribute on the 50th Anniversary of Organised Collections for the Life-Boat Service In
Members of the Slough branch of the R.N.L.I, looking at Slough parks department's floral tribute on the 50th anniversary of organised collections for the life-boat service in Slough. In the photograph are (left to right) Mr. R. N. Parks,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Unsung Heroes: Steve Robinson
Kinghorn Lifeboat Station’s tractor driver tells us what it’s like to be a part of the RNLI family
How are you involved with the RNLI?
I was senior helm, retiring in 1995. In 2014 I rejoined as tractor driver....
Category: Articles
Ballyglass: CLANN LIR READY TO SAVE LIVES ON THE WATER
In October, Ballyglass’s new D class lifeboat, the Clann Lir, was officially named. It was named by Sophie Reilly from Belmullet National School – who won a competition judged by station volunteers – after the Celtic legend of the children...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
No Day Too Long An Hydrographer's Tale by Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie published by the Pent/and Press at £15.50 ISBN 1 872795 63 3 The chart is such a commonplace item aboard a boat that it is often taken for granted. But spare a...
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Poole: (Above) Cheerful Greetings for the New 33Ft Brede Class
Poole: (above) Cheerful greetings for the new 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Inner Wheel as she returns to Poole Town Quay after making a short demonstration trip in the habour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Renovated Unity Buildings Are the Home for Salcombe's Crew
(Above right] The renovated Unity Buildings are the home for Salcombe's crew and a new museum. The top floor is the RNLI's only holiday flat!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visits to Fund Raisers While Anthony Oliver Dos (Southern) Was Calling on Lock-Keeper Lyn David and His Wife (I) at Marsh Lock Henley-On-Thames the Chief Inspec
Visits to fund raisers . . . While Anthony Oliver, DOS (Southern) was calling on lock-keeper, Lyn David, and his wife (I.) at Marsh Lock, Henley-on-Thames, the Chief Inspector of Navigation, Thames Water Authority, Mr D. Cruickshank, passed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Irish Air Force Seaplane
Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.
A S.S.E....