LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Midnight Marauder and a Dinghy
Plastic sheeting HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Dover lifeboat station at 0452 on Saturday October 17, 1981, that the Dutch yacht Midnight Marauder, being sailed singlehanded, was in difficulty with a fouled...
Gang Warily
Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...
Ailsea
Peel, Isle of Man - At 4.55 a.m. on 22nd April, 1966, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Ailsea had run ashore half a mile north east of Jurby Head. The crew of the life-boat assembled, but a message was then...
Hopeful
FISHING KETCH AGROUND At 4.17 p.m. the following day, the Queen's harbourmaster told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the breakwater near the lighthouse. As the tide was due to ebb for i^- hours and there was a fresh...
The Cooperative Bank
The COOPERATIVE BANK A Loan from • •i APR is as near as your phone Specially negotiated rates for RNLI members Borrow any amount between £500-£15,000 Funds transferred directly to your bank account Monthly repayment LOAN £ 15...
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Category: Articles
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
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Medical Arrangements In the Rnli: Part 1 History By Geoffrey Hale Mbe Mb BCh
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN instances of medical men serving on the Committee of Management in years gone by, and many occasions when doctors on the coast have given valuable service, there was never a centrally planned policy on medical...
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Competitors In the York Raft Race from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club Paddle Up the Ouse Under Lendal Bridge Winner of the 43-Strong Home-Fashi
Competitors in the York Raft Race, from the Viking Hotel to the York Motor Yacht Club, paddle up the Ouse, under Lendal Bridge. Winner of the 43-strong home-fashioned fleet was Rift Raft; she was made of three aircraft drop tanks and rowed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mite
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the 5th of June, 1948, the engines of the sixty- three-ton motor yacht Mite, on passage from Malta to London, broke down some fifteen miles west of Portland Bill in a south-south-west gale with a very rough sea. The...