LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Learning the Ropes
Many people imagine that the average RNLI crew member is a selfless, brave, experienced mariner. Crew members are certainly brave and selfless but, today, volunteers with a professional maritime background are in the...
Category: Articles
Grace Darling
WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...
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Instructions for the Management of Open Boats In Heavy Surfs and Broken Water
IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
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District Conferences In the North of England and London
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Relief Atlantic 75 (B705) The Vera Skilton The Crew Tfignks on Vellum Helmsman Wayne Martin for his 'boat handling skill.
judgement and leadership.' '...[he] handled the Atlantic 75 expertlv...'...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Award* to Honorary Workers.
SINCE the last number of The Life-Boat was published, the following presenta- tions/have been made to Honorary, Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in recognition of their*...
Category: Branches
Erlo Hills
Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
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The Sea Fisheries of Scotland
THE recently published Annual Report of the Scottish Fishery Board is full of interesting and useful information on this very important part of the national industries and food supplies.
This Board, as at present...
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A leap of faith
When a January storm savaged a sail training crew and their yacht, a lifeboat headed to their aid – but in these violent conditions, what could the RNLI volunteers do to help?
Keen sailor...
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