LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Around the Coast
SECOND OF THE STEEL HULLED 18 knot fast afloat Thames class lifeboats, Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, recently completed her first comparative trials with the prototype, 50-001, and with an Arun class boat, 52-02. Although only light to moderate...
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The shark-baiting, tank-commanding granny!
She has already driven a tank and swum with sharks in aid of the RNLI this year – and now 77-year-old Jean Shields wants to drive a high-speed racing car. Jean, President of the RNLI’s Troon Fundraising Branch, raised almost £500 for...
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Lorne
The schooner Lome, of Arklow, put into Wicklow harbour early in the morning of the 18th March in the height of an E.S.E. gale. The vessel left Garston with a cargo of coal bound for Balli- nacurra, Co. Cork, but when she reached the...
Book Reviews
• Dr Robert Haworth, the author of First Aid for Yachtsmen (Adlard Coles, £3.95), is not only the honorary medical adviser to the RNLI's station at Barmouth, but he is also an active member of the ILB crew, and in that capacity was...
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New Quay: HANDLES WITH CARE
Two volunteers from New Quay lifeboat station travelled 313 miles to Penlee in Cornwall on 7 November – to present a set of old cast-iron door handles. Mechanic Bernie Davies explains: ‘On reading on Facebook that someone had stolen the old...
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(Below) Seas Break Heavily Over the Stranded Vessel
(below) seas break heavily over the stranded vessel. Conditions had moderated by the time these photographs were taken in the early aftemoon.of 13 January. (Photos courtesy Jerry Kennelly). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Honours for Hugh
On Friday 6 March, Her Majesty the Queen handed Captain Hugh Fogarty his MBE at...
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Rock-n-Roll
Red Flares AT 7.4 p.m. on May 29 the Coastguard at Littlehampton, Sussex, told the honorarv secretary that he had receiveda call reporting red flares being fired six miles west south west of the harbour entrance.
The ILB...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Vii—Building Up
THE VAST OPEN SPACES of the hull interior gradually disappear as work continues at William Osborne's yard on the internal structure of the 37' 6" Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
In the...
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Bucklers Hard Boat Builders Ltd.,
Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a full repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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