LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A coastal living
Communities have naturally evolved on the coast due to their very proximity to the sea and the riches it brings. However, fluctuating demand, depleting natural resources and the discovery of new ones, have meant that coastal peoples have had...
Category: Articles
Changing of the guards
With the official start to the 2015 lifeguard season just around the corner, over 1,300 RNLI lifeguards are being recruited and put through their paces to make sure they’re ready to fulfil their demanding role. They will be patrolling over...
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Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
Category: Articles
New Books and a Play
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
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Harvest Home
CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
FLASH FICTION
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
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Sallash and District Branch Man Rnlj Souvenir Stands at Various Regal Las and Fetes During the Summer and Are Here Seen at Saltash Regatta Souvenirs and Cards
Sallash and District branch man RNLJ souvenir stands at various regal las and fetes during the summer, and are here seen at Saltash Regatta. Souvenirs and cards are also sold before Christmas at a local shop. With a small committee of six,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Ronaig
JUNE 11TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking and men on a raft drifting out to sea, east of Seaford. The weather was calm. At 1.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched and...
Second Life-Boat Medal Awarded Forty-Five Years Later
AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEA, AND LLAN- DDULAS, DENBIGHSHIRE.—One of the new self-righting Life-boats, with the water- ballast fittings, has been placed at Llan- ddwyn by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in the place of a smaller Boat...
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