LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st March to 31st May: Launches 359, lives saved 156 MARCH SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had...
Category: Services
Lifeboats Go Green?
The world's first motor-sailing lifeboat? It would undoubtedly save fuel and probably be great fun for the crews, but could it manage the 32-knot service speed? Sadly, this isn't the latest product of the fertile minds of the Trials... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Rail Journeys
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JOURNEYS Two of over 70 escorted tours worldwide 2008 Departure Dates and Prices 30 departures between 29 March and 18 October Prices from £1,290 to £1,450 2008 Departure Dates and Prices 10...
Category: Advertisement
It's Cold and You'Re Tired and Hungry
It's cold, and you're tired and hungry - but the boat comes first. Crew members from Salcombe lend a willing hand as Princess Royal takes fuel soon after first light on a grey and chilly morning in Salcombe. after her overnight... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Travelscope Holidays Ltd
North Cape & Land of the Midnight Sun Cruise from £699 Honningsvag, North Cape MV Athena 11 days departing: 13th June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Five ports of call: Ålesund, Tromso, Bergen (Norway), Honningsvåg...
Category: Advertisement
211 Medals
The Institution awarded 204 gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry, and in rewards and other payments to its crews and launchers it spent £400,000. Lifeboatmen also won four British Empire Medals, two Distinguished Service Medals...
Category: Articles
Janbyrd & Magna Charta
After dark on the 1st of November, the Life-boat George Gay, in answer to signals of distress observed from Penarth, proceeded to the roadstead, where she found two vessels in collision; a strong breeze from the S.W. was blowing at the time,...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On the 1st of January, 1959, the body of a young man from Arranmore, who had been killed in an accident in Wales, was brought to Burtonport, but because of the stormy weather it was not possible to take the...
Voices
VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...