LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Going Alongside from Page 123
of getting a survivor directly out of the water. How many men does it take to get one man out of the water? Jones: We picked up two men a month ago, and one of them was completely unconscious. We put the scrambling net down; two men went...
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Regulus and a Dinghy
It was a dark and stormy night...
The Invergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was launched just before midnight on 10 May 2002, following reports that two craft were overdue at Golspie, in winds of Force 5-6. Contact was...
Chong Peng
Combined Operation THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Appledore, North Devon, was informed at 3.26 a.m., on Wednesday, September 19, 1973, that a yacht was in distress 28 miles to the west of the lifeboat station.
The...
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Margaret Mitchell Wife of a Fleet Branch Committee Member Leaves Raising Money to Her Cat Perdita Instead of Selling Perdita's Kittens Mrs Mitchell Asks New Owner
Margaret Mitchell, wife of a Fleet branch committee member, leaves raising money to her cat, Perdita. Instead of selling Perdita's kittens, Mrs Mitchell asks new owners to make a donation to the RNLI.
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Testing Out the Mtv Basic Voice Trainer: (I to R) Coxswain Derek Scott Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from the Mumbles Photograph By
Testing out the MTV basic voice trainer: (I. to r.) Coxswain Derek Scott, Motor Mechanic Alan Jones and Crew Member George Parsons from The Mumbles. - View image in PDF
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Arcadia
MFV founders THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Lochinver lifeboat station received a call from Stornoway Coastguard at 1633 on Thursday June 16, asking him to stand by because Lochinver police had just reported that an unknown vessel had...
A Sailing Boat
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
Solomon Browne,
The last Gold Medal was awarded 16years ago, posthumously to Coxswain Trevelyn Richards of the Penlee lifeboat. The award followed the tragic loss of the 47ft Watson class lifeboat Solomon Browne, her entire crew and four survivors she had... - View image in PDF
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Three special station birthdays
Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.
One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...
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