LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rito
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...
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
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The RNLI are putting Penta outboards in , their new inshore rescue craft. With Penta 360, these revolutionary Pell Quay 17ft fibreglass dories get away to an...
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Coxswain Seamus Mccormack of Rosslare Harbour
Coxswain Seamus McCormack of Rosslare Harbour joined the crew in 1973 and served as Second Coxswain from 1977 until his appointment as Coxswain in 1987.
In 1979 he was awarded a bronze medal in recognition of the courage,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nostalgia Direct
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs RICHARD CLAYDERMAN Music brings back such fond memories to all of us ... especially the romantic piano sound of Richard Clayderman.
We are delighted to present Moonlight d Roses his wonderful...
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Laertes
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. The Dutch steamer Laertes, of Amsterdam, had struck a mine S.E. of the Royal Sovereign Lightship, and had caught fire, but she was able to reach a Dutch port under her own power. - Rewards :...
An Aeroplane (173)
NOVEMBER 15TH . - RHYL, FLINT - SHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats found nothing, and it was learned later that no aeroplane was missing. - Rewards :...
Mr. Stanhope Bone
Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
Category: Obituaries
Lottery Winner David Penn (centre) Enjoys His Visit To West Mersea Lifeboat Station, With Deputy Launching Authorities Ian Crossley (left) And Jeremy Dumas (right)
Lottery winner David Penn (centre) enjoys his visit to West Mersea lifeboat station, with Deputy Launching Authorities Ian Crossley (left) and Jeremy Dumas (right).
Photo: Nigel Brown Lottery winner David Penn (centre).<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Memory of Grace Darling
THE motor life-boat Herbert Joy, the gift of Mr. Alexander O. Joy, of London, which was at one time sta- tioned at Scarborough, and is now in the Institution's reserve fleet at Poplar, went up the Thames on 24th November to take part in...
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