LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.

Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...

COVER PICTURE by Edward Mallinson The third Trent class, Blue Peter VII, pictured off the island of Alderney during crew training before going to her station at Fishguard. She is the first all-weather lifeboat to carry the 'Blue... - View image in PDF

THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...

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On the 4th October the brig Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, in making Rye Harbour, grounded on the bar. The Rye life-boat landed the master and crew, and on the following tide, the weather having mo- derated, they again proceeded to the brig,...

A bear thank you Sir -1 should like to thank everyone who has written requesting a personalized teddy bear, (Bear necessities, Summer 1989 issue).

The teddy bears are still available and the letters RNLI can be worked on...

• Published to coincide with the Institution's 150th Anniversary, The Life-boat Service by Oliver Warner (Cassell, London, £4.50) is the authoritative account of the RNLI. Mr Warner has had access to all of its papers, and has...

Ten small boats WEST MERSEA deputy launching authority was informed by HM Coastguard at 1652 on Saturday May 26, 1979, that an upturned sailing dinghy had been sighted l'/2 miles east of Shinglehead Point. Maroons were fired and at 1700...