LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...
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One of the Last Launches of John and Henrietta In 1916 Assisted By the Army
One of the last launches of John and Henrietta, in 1916, assisted by the army.. - View image in PDF
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Top: The Indomitable Keith (centre) And His Rescuers Are Safe At Last
Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
LOWESTOFT.—On the night of the 2nd November, 1861, the schooner Fly, of Whitby, was in a leaky state, and in danger of foundering near Lowestoft, in a heavy gale from the north. On her making signals of distress, the life-boat of the...
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SPRING INTO A NEW BOOK
FOR SWIMMERS
Swell
by Jenny Landreth
For centuries, women in the water fell into three categories: mermaids luring sailors to their doom, witches being dunked, and those of questionable moral fibre. This fun...
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Braywick
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About 8.40 on the morning of the 8th of January.
1953, the motor vessel Braywick, of London, which had a crew of nine, wirelessed that she had broken down and needed a tug three miles north- east...
Living with history
The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence
If walls could speak, those of old...
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During Severe Gales Which Swept the North West on Friday November 11 New Brighton Dodo Tractor Was In Full Action Going Down to Check the Boathouse at 2230
During severe gales which swept the north west on Friday, November 11, New Brighton DODO tractor was in full action.
Going down to check the boathouse at 2230, Crew Member Cliff Downing found the promenade flooded and more... - View image in PDF
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Tantivy
At 11 A.M. on the 26th Feb- ruary, during a strong gale at E., the schooner Tantivy, of Wicklow, bound from Liverpool to Wicklow, was forced ashore on the strand north of Howth Harbour.
Immediately on striking, heavy seas...
December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
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