LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wizard of Oz
5 January 2012: RNLI Lifeguard Ross Leighton saved a family of four from a dangerous rip current off Bennett’s Beach in New South Wales, Australia. He was lifeguarding down under for our Winter, but is usually...
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A Boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service
JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service had gone out to the help of an aeroplane which had come down in the sea, had caught fire herself and had been burnt out, but her crew were rescued by the examination...
The Submarine C. 12
The Life - boat William and Charles was launched in response to distress signals at about 10.30 A.M. on the 22nd December. She found the Submarine C 12 ashore and landed the crew of sixteen hands.
Later in the day the...
The S.S. Hamla
MAY 14TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.23 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, that the S.S. Hamla, of London, was in distress about twenty miles from Selsey Bill in a south-easterly...
The Last War Service
The war in Europe ended at one minute after midnight of May 8th., and the last launch of a life-boat was one minute before the end. An mdei- vatei explosion, either torpedo or mine, had blown up a Norwegian minesweeper, one of four, fifteen...
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The Finnish Lifeboat Service
SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
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During the 1979 World Cruise
During lh? IV7 J world cruise of the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2, nn English country fair was held in aid of the American British Lifeboat Appeal. Introduced by f-'ather Mill.', and opened by Captain Douglas Ridley, the fair wax... - View image in PDF
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On a Visit to Hastings Earlier This Year Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Patron of the Rnli for 43 Years Stops for a Word With Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and Members of the Lifeboat Cre
On a visit to Hastings earlier this year HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Patron of the RNLI for 43 years, stops for a word with Coxswain John 'Joe' Martin and members of the lifeboat crew.. - View image in PDF
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The Fraserburgh Inquiry
A FORMAL investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 was held at the Sheriff Court House, Aberdeen, from 5th to 12th October, 1970, into the circumstances attending the capsizing of the Fraserburgh life-boat The Duchess of Kent...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. He was appointed second coxswain in 1941 and after a break for war service became coxswain in 1947. In 1958 he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service in which...
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