LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
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Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....
Courage and loss
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
Category: Articles
Bose
It seems small.
Until you turn it on.
The Rose® Acoustic Wave® music system. The biggest thing about it is the sound.
It measures just 10.5"H x 18"Wx 6.5"D and...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Service 100 Years Ago. Fourth Annual Report
IT is now four years since the establishment of this Institution ; and the Committee, in making their Fourth Annual Report, beg leave to state, that they have continued to pursue the measures which they have deemed best calculated to effect...
Category: Annual Reports
Penlee Formal Investigation
The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...
Category: Articles
Wolverhampton (Left)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence