LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
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Your shout
My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, on Tuesday 17 July.
We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...
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The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
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A Dutch Vessel
4th March. A Dutch vessel was wrecked on Blackwater Bank, but another vessel rescued the crew.— Permanent crew, Rewards, £2 6s. 6d..
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
1st January to 31st March.
Greater London.
BATTERSEA.—Concert by the Junior Imperial League, with address by Mr. Rham, Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Address to the Rotary Club by the District...
Category: Branches
A Lifetime Of Lifesaving
A lifetime of lifesaving Joel Grunnill tells the Lifeboat how he overcame ice, injuries and even bullets during his so-far-78 years of volunteering Skegness born and bred, Joel Grunnill was part of the Lincolnshire town’s lifeboat crew for...
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ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
Category: Services
Mrs M Donald a Member of the Mumbles Ladies' Guild Presents a Cheque for £5000 to Mrs P Morgan President of the Guild This Most Generous Cheque Had Been
Mrs M. Donald, a member of The Mumbles ladies' guild, presents a cheque for £5,000 to Mrs P. Morgan, president of the guild. This most generous cheque had been given to Mrs Donald with instructions that it should be given to her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs