LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
TRAPPED BY THE TIDE
Two walkers and their dog get caught between rising seawater and 30m cliffs
Christine and Mollie stepped off the bus at Tregantle in Cornwall in late September for a day’s walking. The 25 miles between Cremyll and Polperro...
Category: Articles
A Bishop's Interest
AN exercise of the life-boat at Barra Island was held in November, 1951, during a visit to the island of the Bishop of Argyll and Isles. This was his first trip in a life-boat.
The bishop had been very anxious to make it,...
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£30 from a Seal
A fisherman at Saltcoats, Ayrshire, rescued a baby seal which was helpless amoag the rocks in a rough sea, fed him with milk and cod liver oil, and decided to keep him until he was big enough to swim away. Meanwhile he made £30 by...
Category: Articles
Macduff Grampian: Douglas Currie Prepares for Her Naming Ceremony Photograph By Courtesy of W J Heinrich
Macduff, Grampian: Douglas Currie prepares for her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W. J. Heinrich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inset: Nicknamed ‘The Odeon’ For Its Retro Styling, Lymington’s Facility Also Includes An RNLI Shop
Inset: nicknamed ‘the Odeon’ for its retro styling, Lymington’s facility also includes an RnLI shop Photos: Graham Wilding. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
The Shipwreck Off "Soulsgrif."
The following graphic account of a determined and gallant Lifeboat Service rendered on the occasion of a shipwreck which occurred on the Yorkshire Coast a few years since, is abridged from an interesting work, entitled, " Between the...
Category: Articles
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Visitors to the Boat Show Clamber Aboard the Severn Class Lifeboat for Closer Inspection
Visitors to the Boat Show clamber aboard the Severn class lifeboat for closer inspection. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs