LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

When you're saving lives second best won't do You need the best - a rigid hull inflatable as now adopted by the RNLI.

Extensive testing has shown the superiority of this design in rescue work over the pure...

TROPHIES RACE SETS — MAINSAILS — DINGHYS — CUPS.

VV. & E. Astin, 7 Westerley Lane, Shelley, Huddersfield.

Kirkburton 2368.

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When Woodley branch held its flag day in the local shopping precinct this year, they borrowed a model lifeboat from Windsor branch which created a great deal of interest, especially from the children.

On the same day Rupert... - View image in PDF

— Shortly after 1 A.M. on 31st March a rocket and a flare were seen near Kettleness Point during a break in a thick fog. This was reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Hester BothscMld,vrho ordered the launch of the boat. She proceeded...

At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with...

In October, RNLI lifeboats were sent by road to help people trapped by floods in the Midlands.. - View image in PDF

FIRST RESCUE FROM HOVERCRAFT On the 17th September, 1962, the first rescue of the crew of a hovercraft was carried out by the Rhyl, Flintshire, life-boat. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Harold Campini was awarded the...

OCTOBER 1991 William Hunt, coxswain/mechanic of Rhyl lifeboat from 1964 to 1973 when he became mechanic until his retirement in 1977. He first joined the crew in 1937, was appointed second coxswain in 1949 until 1951 when he served as...