LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER V FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by [he National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
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Come visit us!
Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge
In the pages of the...
Category: Articles
UNDER PRESSURE
When a swimmer drew close to a pier at a Dorset beach, lifeguards moved quickly to warn him of the dangers – but they soon found he needed more than advice
The waters off Boscombe beach looked deceptively calm on 5 May....
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Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
WHEN diesel engines were first fitted into a life-boat in 1932 a new policy was adopted which was to be of the greatest importance in the history of life-boat construction. Just how im- portant this development has been isshown by the fact...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Battle royal The peace of the Glasgow afternoon was shattered by the sound of rocket and gunfire and the waiting crowd watched with tense expectation. A variety of lifeboats stood by waiting for the call as the Russian battle fleet closed in...
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The Life-Boat
IN safety we sit in our homes, I And read about storms on the sea, ' Of the dangers which men undergo, I And how brave in the danger they be.
We read of the waves mountain high, | Of the wind and its...
Category: Poetry
The Cornet, of Aberdeen
THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occasion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occasion she travelled...
Al Rosanjo
THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...
Royal Blue to the Rescue
THE following report is reproduced from Stage Coach, the magazine of General Western National, Royal Blue, Devon and Greenslades coaches.
'To be able to answer an urgent call for assistance from an organisation which is...
Category: Correspondence
Myros
Three saved from dismasted catamaran in storm conditionsP) lymouth's Arun class City of Plymouth made headline news locally when she went to the aid of the 35ft catamaran Myros. which had been dismasted in storm force winds on Thursday...