MAY 27TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At daybreak the coble Premier had gone out to attend to her crab pots. By 8.30 there was thick fog and a heavy sea was breaking at the pier head. There was a breeze from the north-east....
As described in the article in the last issue of The Life-boat on the 35 feet 6' inches self-righting type of motor life-boat, the Institution was engaged from 1921 to 1929 in experiments on a motor life-boat which should be suffi-...
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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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Ex-lifeboats from all over the UK got together for the Fowey lifeboat rally in June Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF
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Contents Volume XLIX Number 491 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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FRASERBURGH.—On the 15th August about two hundred of the fishing-boats put to sea, but as weather was threatening the remaining six hundred boats did not venture out. Towards night the wind increased until it attained the force of a gale,...
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 10th October, as a very heavy sea had got up, with heavy rain showers and a strong and increas- ing N.E. wind, and the local fishing coble Sea Queen was at sea....
Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...
A NUMBER of articles and reports which it had been hoped to publish in this number have been held over owing to lack of space, among them being " Honorary Workers of the Institution : Mr. Ernest Woolfield, Honorary Secre- tary of the...
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Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
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