LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...
Category: Correspondence
Accept No Substitute
Radios, helicopters, MRCCs - they have all altered the face of modern Search and Rescue.
But there are things for which the lifeboat is still best, as two friends of yachting writer and television broadcaster Malcolm McKeag...
Category: Articles
Letters
Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.
When he was...
Category: Correspondence
Our Inland Branches
Ix the last number of this Journal attention was drawn to the valuable co-operation of the Man- chester Branch, and the important services rendered to the Life-boat cause in that city, resulting, as was shown, in the presentation of...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT if, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 26th day of March, 1874, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., B.O.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Spanish Steamer Wrecked at Coverack
ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1990
Aberdeen, Grampian Arun ON 1050: September 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 9 (four times), 11, 20, 27, September I, October 6 (twice), 14 and 21 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 5 (three times), 15, 18, 20, September 6 and...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen. Grampian D class: July 6 Aberdovey. Gwynedd At/antic 21: July 11, 15, 19 (twice) and 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 17 (twice), 21 (three times). July 6. 8. 25 (three times). 26 (twice). 29 and 31 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class...
Category: Services