LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1895
Jan. 10.—Voted 11. to two men, with thanks to one of them, for saving the crew of three men from a coastguard boat which was capsized off Shanagau Point, co. Antrim, in a squall on the 8th November.
Also 31. 10s. to seven...
Category: Articles
La Francoise
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Elephants and beer goggles
Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …
‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...
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Feature: Getting to Know Her
The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
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Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)
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Longshoremen In Winter
Telling of the Winter Life ltd by tht Stout-hearted Heroes who Man our Life-boats.
By HERBERT RUSSELL.
WHEN the shrill piping of the equinoctial gales has proclaimed the coming of the long bleak months of...
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Letters
Butaseis Together with countless people throughout Torbay, I was extremely concerned over the presence of the liquid gas tanker Butaseis. I have been advised of the outstanding action taken by the coxswain and crew of the lifeboat in going...
Category: Correspondence
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Gazelle (1)
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Your Letters
Thank you...for saving our lives Received by Hastings and St Leonards branch following a service to three men aboard the yacht Martina on 13-14 July 1991: Gentlemen, Having had the chance to collect my thoughts on the events of last Saturday...
Category: Correspondence