LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Search and Rescue Seminar In the United States
A SEMINAR was held in New York from the I2th to i4th May, 1965, under the auspices of the United States Coast Guard to discuss the search and rescue organization in the North Atlantic basin. The delegates were not official government...
Category: Meetings
Explanation of the Plan
water, the submarine.surveying apparatus will be used in addition to the ordinary mode of sweep- ing ; the stages (with the divers down the chain- ladders on their platforms) being drawn by a screw-steamer about half a-mile the hour, there...
Category: Articles
Economy and Willing Boys
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat which had engine trouble was sheltering near Reiss Sands and that a motor fishing vessel was stand- ing by. At 3.8...
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
RICHARD ARMSTRONG Vent Grace Darling Maid and Myth A mariner by training, Mr. Armstrong presents Grace as a living girl, already a legend in her lifetime. His account of the wreck of the Forfarshire is entirely...
Category: Advertisement
Olympic Dreams
RNLI Lifeguard Kerry Blewett has been selected to train for the 2012 Olympics as part of Team GB. Kerry entered a UK Sport and English Institute of Sport talent recruitment drive to find female athletes to take up sprint...
Category: Articles
Dispatches
A day to remember The RNLI's Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony is an uplifting experience More than 1,000 supporters, volunteers, staff and, most importantly, awardees attended this year's event on Thursday 18 May at the...
Category: Articles
Mercantile Credit
SHORELINE MAKES PERSONAL LOANS PLAIN SAILING.
SHORELINE MAKES MARINE LOANS PLAIN SAILING A new boat? a refit? Or just a little help with annual expenses? Whatever your requirements, if you're an RNLI supporter you can...
Category: Advertisement
Services by Shore-Boats (8)
ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 11 A.M on the 12th June, 1939, information was received that a girl had fallen down the cliffs at Haggington Beach, Hele Bay. A strong boat was borrowed for the job, and the Institution’s petrol was used.- Rewards...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...
Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird Accepting North Sea Rum from W Massie Area Sales Manager Mackinlay-Mcpherson Ltd on Board the 54Ft Arun Bp Forties Last Fe
Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird accepting North Sea rum from W.
Massie, area sales manager, MacKinlay-McPherson Ltd, on board the 54ft Arun BP Forties last February. Front row (I. to r.): Rear Admiral J. R. D. Nunn, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs