LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent. About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, news was received that four soldiers had been cut off by the tide near the South Foreland lighthouse. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea. At 1...
Beverwuck
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At I p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an attempt was to be made to refloat the Dutch dredger Beverwuck which had gone aground on the i8th November, 1965. The dredger...
French and Belgian Life-Boats In the British Fleet.
A French life-boat, which escaped from France at the end of June 1940 and arrived at an English port, with her coxswain, motor mechanic and French refugees on board, has been taken over by the Institution for the war.
She...
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Colonel Burnett Brown
Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C, T.D., M.A., who has been deputysecretary since 1931, succeeds Colonel Satterthwaite as secretary. Colonel Burnett Brown, after serving through the war of 1914 to 1918 and being twice wounded, served again...
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Britannia
APRIL 22ND. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth...
The Admiralty L.C.T. 534
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 8.20 A.M. the Deal coastguard asked for the life-boat crew to be assembled. At 9.18 A.M. a further message came that vessel was over the Brake Sands, and the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin...
One Man, one vision
Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.
And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...
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My Susanne
FISHING BOAT SAVED FROM ROCKY GRAVE At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat...
London Boat Show
'BRING ME SUNSHINE' was the theme of the 27th London International Boat Show, set against a Caribbean background, at Earls Court from January 8 to 18, so who else could have opened it but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise? Always good...
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The Fundraisers
During the RNLI's anniversary year, branches, guilds and supporters from all over the UK and Republic of Ireland celebrated in a number of novel and interesting ways - with many of the green fingered amongst them saying it with flowers.....
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