LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Open House
Every two years the RNLI throws open its doors at the Poole Headquarters and Depot to show how it goes about backing the volunteer crews and fundraisers.
This year the event was held on Friday and Saturday the first i and...
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Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
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Two Sponsored Lunch-Hour Knit-Ins By Rnli Headquarters Staff at Poole Raised £44 One Was Held Near the Caravan on the Quay; the Other Due to Rain In the Office
Two sponsored lunch-hour knit-ins by RNLl Headquarters staff at Poole raised £44. One was held near the caravan on the quay; the other, due to rain, in the office. Knitters were sponsored by other members of staff and their families;... - View image in PDF
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Following the Ceremony - Brian Sevan Takes Hrh the Duke of Ken! Aboard the New Lifeboat.
Following the ceremony - Brian Sevan takes HRH The Duke of Ken! aboard the new lifeboat. Photo. Roger Jack. - View image in PDF
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Violet and Grey Gull
The next call came between 2 A.M.
and 2.30 A.M., when the coxswain received a telephone message that the life-boat was wanted, but at that moment the telephone lines were blown down, and no details could be got. At 2.40 A.M...
Hi-Hope and Tyn-Tuc
TROUBLE ON THE BAR THE ability to be able to anticipate a dangerous situation is useful at sea and this was demonstrated at Cardigan on 13th August, 1972, when the local ILB was called out before she was actually needed.
At...
Ebor Jewel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
A Small Open Boat
On the 5th September at about 2.30 P.M. a small open boat with one occupant left the harbour to return to Helen's Bay.
The wind was blowing strongly from W.S.W. and increasing, whilst the sea was heavy; the boat was...