LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corrections
In the Summer issue of the Lifeboat, in a news article on page 14 entitled ‘RWCs on station’, we mistakenly stated that Bude was in Devon.
Bude is actually in Cornwall. On page 13 we inadvertently merged two distinct...
Category: Articles
A French Matinee In Aid of the Institution
IT is a far cry from the snows of Russia to tke sands of the Sahara, and as far a cry from the Sahara to the coasts of the British Isles. But experiments are now being made to see if a device originally designed for motor transport over the...
Category: Articles
Torbay: the Crew from the Cargo Vessel Majorca Are Put Ashore at Brixham
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
A Sea King helicopter from 202 squadron RAF Brawdy flies past the naming ceremony site at Tenby on September 29, 1986, in salute to the station's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, RFA Sir Galahad. A description of the proceedings can be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
THE third volume in Cyril Noall's and Grahame Farr's series Wreck and Rescue around the Cornish Coast (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 28s.) tells the history of life-boat stations on the south coast of Cornwall. These are: Mullion,...
Category: Articles
A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman
WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...
Category: Articles
Four Cobles
Four cobles of Spittal and Berwick went out during the forenoon on the 6th April to recover their gear, which they had been obliged to abandon three days previously owing to heavy winds. They proceeded to Goswick Bay, and had hardly...
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter (3rd from I) presented the RNLI's public relations awards at this year's show to (I to r): Colin Watson for photographic work for the RNLI; John Mills of Formula One Films for his voluntary work in producing the film... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Temple Insurance
Boat Insurance for Shoreline Members (and other lifeboat' readers) Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd., specialist Marine Craft Insurance Brokers, Members of the British Insurance Brokers Association, are pleased to offer Shoreline Members and...
Category: Advertisement
Jo-Anne (1)
Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...