LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sweet Reason
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a local yacht club told the honorary secretary that three yachts were missing in a race. One was thought to be dismasted five miles inside the North Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat...
Golden Spray
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.50 p.m. on loth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Cromer coastguard that a vessel was in trouble two miles southwest of Lynn Well lightvessel. The lifeboat Charles...
Pictured Here Is the First Rescue Boat With a Fibre-Glass Hull to Be Tested Under Operational Conditions
Pictured here is the first rescue boat with a fibre-glass hull to be tested under operational conditions by the R.N.L.I. It is a 17-foot dory built by Dell Quay Productions Ltd., at Itchenor, Sussex. (See pages 464 and 482.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Glasgow Ball
AFTER the Edinburgh meeting the Prince of Wales travelled by special train to Glasgow and there attended a Ball, organised by the Glasgow Branch and held on board the s.s. Transylvania, lying in the Clyde. This is the second Ball which,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (39)
JULY 1 1TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the coastguard saw a British aeroplane brought down by the enemy off Selsey Bill. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, but there was only a slight sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched...
Madre-de-Cristo
Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock...
Make lifesaving cupcakes!
Everyone loves a cupcake, and selling a tasty treat in aid of the RNLI has always been a popular way of raising funds. We asked TV chefs The Hairy Bikers for a recipe that isn’t too stodgy (we all need room for a mince pie or...
Category: Articles
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BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...
All In a Day's Work
Mr Subbers was transferred to the lifeboat by stretcher (see below) and, back on land, was taken to the district hospital for treatment.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marinecall
Look no further than RNLI Marinecall for the latest Met Office weather forecasts don't guess omarinecall Inshore Area Cape Wrath - Rattray Head Rattray Head - Berwick Berwick - Whitby Whitby - The Wash The Wash - North Foreland North...
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