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The long view

Date: Spring 2012

Volume: 61

Issue: 599 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2012

One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia

Both incidents involved loss of life, with...

Category: Articles

The Sailor Boy

Date: July 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 45

HE rose at dawn, and, flushed with hope, Shot o'er the seething harbour-bar, And reached the ship and caught the rope, And whistled to the morning star.

And while on deck he whistled loud, He heard a fierce mermaiden...

Category: Poetry

Portrait on the Cover

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...

Category: Articles

Selection of a New Life-Boat

Date: November 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 230

THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...

Category: Articles

Mercury Direct,

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

S U P E R B 4 - S T A R O F F E R MALTA 1 WEEK ALL INCLUSIVE FROM JUST £387 A TREAT FOR MIND AND BODY Warm weather, picturesque towns and villages plus a wealth of archeological and historic treasures make Malta an ideal year round...

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Yachting Books...

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

The Cruising Association Handbook, Revised Edition 1971. (The Cruising Association, 490 pp, £6).

• This new edition covers the waters of Britain and Ireland and continental Europe from Kiel to Gibraltar. The coverage...

Category: Articles

December

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Launches 52 Lives rescued 54 DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate...

Category: Services

Feature: Launching Saves Lives

Date: Spring 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 572

The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...

Category: Articles

Swimming and Swimming Schools

Date: October 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 18

WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...

Category: Articles

Success

Date: February 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 135

BODIMIB, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.— At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th October the Robin Hood of Nottingham Life-boat put off and rescued the crew, consisting of four men, from the brig Success,of Sunderland, bound from that port for Arbroath with a cargo of...