LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'Life-Boatmen Know Best'
The leading article in Yachting & Boating for 2Oth April, 1967, had this to say: 'We . . . hear complaints that some of the rescued do not wish to be rescued. But like the surgeon, the life-boatman diagnoses and then operates ....<...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
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Category: Advertisement
Classified Advertisements
Classified Advertisements Wordage: £5.50 per single column centimetre {minimum charge £16.50. NB: The minimum of 3cm takes about 45 words at 15 words per cm). With illustration: £12 per single column centimetre (minimum charge...
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Aldeburgh Appeal to Fund a 37Ft 6in Rother
Aldeburgh appeal to fund a 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was launched two years ago by the then Mayor, Councillor J. M. Studd. On May 15 this year Aldeburgh's present Mayor, Mrs Barbara Brook presented to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of H.M.S. "Orpheus" on Manukau Bar, Near Auckland, New Zealand
WRECK OF H.M.S. " OBPHEUS " ON MANUKAU BAR, NEAR AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.
From The Illustrated London News.
Category: Drawings
St.Bees 17Ft 6In C Class Inflatable Lifeboat
Left: villagers and guests from all over Cumbria attending the service of dedication of the new St Bees 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday October 26, 1985. The lifeboat was paid for out of the bequest of the late Mrs Peggy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1903
Jan. 8.—Voted the thanks of the Insti- tution, inscribed on vellum and framed, together with the sum of 21. each, to JAMES HEARNE and three other boatmen for gallantly putting off in a boat and rescuing the crew of four persons from the...
Category: Articles
The Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883
SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...
Category: Articles