LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Righting Trials of the First 37' Oakley Lifeboat to Be Fitted With Radar
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
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Shoreline
IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
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Atlantic 21 Mobile Dock By Ray Kipling
A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR LAUNCHING AND RECOVERY ON EXPOSED BEACHES by Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR...
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Feature: Reader Survey
The Lifeboat is the RNLI's main contact with you, our supporters, so we are keen to ensure that it is doing its job well. To help us understand your needs better, we sent out 25,000 questionnaires with the autumn 2003 magazine. Thank you...
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No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
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The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen
Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
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Don't Rock the Boat
THIS article appeared in The Field on 8th April and is reproduced by permission of The Field'?, editor. We consider it a most helpful, informative and balanced article, although the comment about the attitude of crews towards...
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Rnli News
Duke of Kent to present awards The Institution's President, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, will address the meeting of the annual presentation of awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in May. He will also present bravery...
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The Bulk Carrier Fiona and Phillips Oklahoma
Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
Books
Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
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