LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Rescue: a Bird's-Eye View By Des Lavelle
LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.
A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...
Category: Correspondence
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th Oct., 1870: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Took line to survivor MR DOUGLAS GiBBiN of the Hartlepool Co. Durham, inshore lifeboat, as reported on page 16, was awarded the bronze medal of the RNLI for the part he played in saving the life of a 16-year-oldboy from...
The Life-Boat
BEEN out in the Life-boat often ? Ay, ay, sir, oft enough.
When it's rougher than this? Lor" bless you! this ain't what we calls rough; It's when there's a gale a-blowin', and the waves run in and...
Category: Poetry
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Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
Inschallah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.16 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a distress signal had been seen two miles south of Portland Bill. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland put out in a...