review by John francis, lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Honorary Secretary
I have had the privilege of evaluating the DVD version of this archive of 580 issues ofthe Lifeboat and found it very easy to use. There are...
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ALTHOUGH the work of the Institution is to succour those in peril from shipwreck round our coasts, it is well that we should never forget the perils of those on the high seas, the gallant rescues performed there, and the long suffering which...
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AT 12.38 early on the morning of the j 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine of Glasgow, a vessel of 779 tons, bound from Llandulas for London with a cargo of limestone and carrying a crew of ten, wirelessed that her fore hatch had...
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This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
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We celebrated the work of some very special RNLI volunteers at our Annual Presentation of Awards in May. Here we feature Natasha Lambert, and two other dedicated volunteers
The RNLI has no...
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Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 237 International Boat Show 239 T T - I VT TTT It was a Dark and Stormy Night ... by Jilly Cooper 240 Number 450 Lifeboat Stamps 242 A Year of Endeavour 243 48 Hours of Gale 248 Chairman: Lifeboat...
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In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
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London: Modern lifeboats formed the theme of the RNLI displays at the London International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 6 to 16. Although in a quiet area, our stand was, as always, the meeting place for many lifeboat friends old and...
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DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
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