LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eight Men and a Dog Rescued from the Rocks
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 16th January, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station, Father Joseph McNamara, was told by the Galway harbour master that the coaster June of Rotterdam was aground on the reefs off...
Category: Services
Fair Festina
Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.
There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...
Welcome
What will you discover this autumn?
The ‘back to school’ feeling is a receding memory for many of us, but I still find autumn brings a clean slate and the instinct to try something new. This issue, we meet volunteers who...
Category: Articles
Brooke Marine Ltd.
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Letters
Evening Cruise On Tuesday July 5 Harwich branch chartered a harbour ferry for an evening cruise up the River Stour and at 1910 on a perfect summer's evening the ferry set sail with 99 adults and six children on board. The ladies'...
Category: Correspondence
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Dell Quay Productions Ltd
DORY 17 — AL-L, WEATHER WORKER TOUGH • UNSINKABLE • FAST RESCUE TENDER -•- For safety there is nothing to beat a Dory ...
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Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition
THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult...
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Whitby: 1235 on Tuesday March 19, 1985. A party of 27 school children with three teachers were reported by a member of the public to be cut off by the tide at Jump Down Bight, 250 yards east of Whitby. Both the relief 44ft Waveney class...