LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invergordon (Continued from Page 166)
(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.
Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...
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August
Launches 50. Lives rescued 152.
AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the...
Category: Services
The Improvisatore. Songs of Society. "Man the Life-Boat!"
During the storms of the past ye «r the NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION contributed to the saving of 1121 live: from various shipwrecks—Hatty Paper.
O ALL ye who sit in comfort By the brightly-blazing fire, Do you ever...
Category: Poetry
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1954. 91 Lives Rescued
APRIL DURING April life-boats were launched 26 times and rescued 22 lives.
THREE MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING BOAT Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had...
Category: Services
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade J.t is difficult to believe that a whole year has passed since my last message in the journal. The old adage of time passing ever more quickly as the...
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A Hythe Life-Boat Play
LAST February, as already reported in The Life-boat, the Hythe life-boat crew gave an entertainment. It was their second. The first had taken place two years before. It had been modestly called a concert, but proved to be such an original...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (6)
JULY
Launches 47. Lives rescued 31.
JULY 5TH - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.W. gale was...
Category: Services
The Hull Form of the Waveney Is Shown Clearly As the First Uk-Built Boat (44-002)
The hull form of the Waveney is shown clearly as the first UK-built boat (44-002) undergoes her righting trial in October 1966. - View image in PDF
Note the flat sections aft to promote planing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The next generation
How do young volunteers get involved in the RNLI of the 21st century? Life is not as simple as it used to be but the charity has a solution
Historically lifeboat stations were able to casually welcome enthusiastic...
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