LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Technology Update for ILC Delegates
(Continued from page 202) hammers and crowbars to break windows and glass partitions, aluminium ladders, harnesses, slings, folding basket stretchers and as many portable lights as possible.
Delegates were also able to draw...
Category: Meetings
Fishing Boats
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
The Life-Boat Service In Ireland
Organising Secretary for Ireland VERY few people who are not associ- ated with the Life-boat Service seem to know that the life-boats on the coasts of Eire are controlled by the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and that as far as the...
Category: Articles
Punching waves
With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril
Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...
Category: Articles
Best Wreck Service of the Year. Three Scottish Life-Saving Companies Share Prize
LIFE-SAVING Apparatus Companies in the Hebrides and the Shetland Isles share the award of the Minister of Transport's shield for the best wreck service of the year 1963-4. The shield will be held for six months by the Port Ellen and Mull...
Category: Awards
Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R.
Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Ben Varrey
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 3 A.M. on the 4th April the coastguard reported that a steamer off the Calf of Man was sounding her siren, as if in distress. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor...
Walmer Centenary
QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Walmer one hundred years ago at a ceremony which took place at the Walmer boat-house on the 23rd of May...
Category: Articles
Hannah's paddle mission
Transatlantic sailor Hannah White paddled up a wave of RNLI support in September during a record-breaking 205-mile solo kayak challenge.
Hannah, who is also an adventurer and broadcaster, became the first person to paddle...
Category: Articles
Index to the Branches
ABERDEEN. . . 223 ABERDOVEI . . 202 ABBRSOCH . . . 173 ABERYSTWTTH . 171 AOKEBGttL . . 227 ALDEBUBGH . . 211 ALLOA . . . . 227 ALHMOUTH . . 205 ANGLE . . . . 208 ANGLESEY . . . 170 ANSTRUTHEB . . 229 APPLBDORI . .179 ARANMORE . . 239...
Category: Branches