LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.
of M. I am...
Category: Correspondence
Crab Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.
on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
ROPE TRICKS
With a yacht pinned to rocks in 60mph winds and driving rain, Tobermory lifeboat crew would need to quickly overcome some hurdles to save the four people onboard
The 2018 summer heatwave took a dramatic turn at the end of...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Category: Advertisement
Free range
With the recession, volcanic ash, and concerns for the environment, more people are taking holidays closer to home, especially to walk our coastal paths. What is the impact on the RNLI?
Waves crashing on a sandy beach or...
Category: Articles
Give As You Earn to the Lifeboats
Now, charity begins at work There's a new way of giving to the RNLI, called Give As You Earn. You join at work and it makes the money you give worth more.
That's because the donation is taken out of your pay by your...
Category: Donations
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
Boy Charlie
JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee was launched for exercise in a N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea. As she returned to her moorings at about 3.30 P.M.
she saw...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs