LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Great Rail Journeys
ARCTIC CIRCLE EXPRESS Departure Dates and Costs 17 May £1590 12 July £1690 31 May £1690 26 July £1690 14 June £1690 2Aug £1590 28 June £1690 Stockholm, the Arctic Circle and fjords of Western Norway Travel...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
1964 WAS a record year with more launches by rescue craft of the R.N.L.I. than ever before. In 1965 a similar pattern seems to be developing. In two of the three months covered by this edition of THE LIFE-BOAT records were again established....
Category: Articles
Scotland Community News
MACDUFF
SQUAREMEN SUPPORT
Ye Corporation O' Squaremen are supporting 17 local causes this year, and the volunteers at Macduff Lifeboat Station are delighted to be
one of those causes. A...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats Named
THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Your Letters
Enthusiastic thank-you I would like to use THE LIFEBOAT to say a big thank you to the coxswains and crews of the lifeboat stations around our coast for making lifeboat enthusiasts so welcome and showing such hospitality and interest when...
Category: Correspondence
Advertorial
ADVeRtoRIAL Reaching new heights Laura Wiltshire decided to treat her parents, Dave and Joan, to the ride of their lives, with a little help from an RNLI supporter offer ‘With mum’s 50th birthday fast approaching i wanted to surprise her...
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A Noteworthy Jubilee
FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
Category: Articles
Fidelity
Fishermen plucked to safety from vessel in danger of capsize Coxswain John C. Murray of Buckle lifeboat station has been congratulated on the 'leadership, determination and skill' he displayed during a service to the fishing vessel...
La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...