LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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Slick rescue
In the midst of an ecological disaster, St Mary’s and Penlee volunteers helped keep 35 people safe.
The crude oil supertanker Torrey Canyon left Kuwait on 19 February 1967 for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her crew were...
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An Inflatable Dinghy
Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....
RNLi Membership
MEMBERSHIP of the R.N.L.I, is being introduced to provide an additional source of regular revenue over and above that raised by branches and guilds. There will be three forms of membership.
These are: (a) Life Members: a...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Stronsay Westray Peebles-shire Peebles Perthshire Atholl and District Auchterarder Blairgowrie Crieff Perth Strathmore Renfrewshire Gourock - Branch Gourock - Guild Greenock Inverkip Lochwinnoch Paisley - Branch Paisley - Guild Port Glasgow...
Category: Services
Austrums, of Riga
Fourteen Launches in One Day.
Two Services by the Ramsey, Isle of Man, Life-boat.
ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Montrose,...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1958
Time of Date Launching Station 1958 Jan.
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Rosslare Harbour Clovelly Filey...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Stories of a Life-Boat Day
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors and ex-mayoresses on its life-boat day. Last autumn no fewer than six mayors and six mayoresses took part in the appeal. It also had among its collectors two...
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Lona M
Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...