LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
Category: Contents
Wells-Next-The-Sea: 0415 Launch the 37' Oakley Reserve Lifeboat Calouste Gulbenkian on Temporary Duty at Wells Was Called Out In the Morning of July 10 After a 9
Wells-next-the-Sea: 0415 launch. The 37' Oakley reserve lifeboat, Calouste Gulbenkian, on temporary duty at Wells, was called out in the morning of July 10 after a 999 report of a missing swimmer. Together with Wells ILB and a helicopter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chairman Praises All for Their Efforts
CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...
Category: Meetings
The Margate Ladies
In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1...
Category: Donations
The Son of Hyde Branch's Honorary Treasurer
Down on the farm in Cheshire—but off on the milk round? The son of Hyde branch's honorary treasurer, Mrs Margaret Cheetham, sets off with the publicity D class inflatable lifeboat which, parked outside Hyde Town Hall where the branch was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of 1926
1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...
Category: Annual Reports
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Presentation of Vellums signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN presentations of Centenary Vellums to Stations have taken place during the past summer, making the total of such Vellums presented forty-three. Nine of these...
Category: Articles
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
Category: Articles
These Pirates Come from Cable Belt Ltd Camberley
These pirates come from Cable Belt Ltd, Camberley, and were just one of the teams to take part in the sixth annual pub crawl organised by Camberley branch. With the help of plunderers like them £1,432.33 was amassed from lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ascot Branch
Staving afloat: two young helpers of Ascot branch enjoy a breather from their bucket duties during the town's annual carnival. The branch's splendid float created a lot of interest and £300 was raised on the day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs