LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lt Cdr Brian Miles the Rnli's Director
Cdr Brian Miles, the RNLI's director, is pictured collecting a cheque for £19,443, the result of a competition sponsored by Frizzell Insurance and Financial Services and which appeared in several editions of the Civil Service... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And They'Re Off!
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pour on the Pennies!
A standard RNLI collection box proved to be a little on the small side for the Elizabeth Barn in Tunbridge Wells. Donations from patrons built up so quickly that a giant Martell bottle had to be used in the end - collecting a total of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fastnet Challenge
In October Raymond Hirst, secretary of Morecarnbe and Heysham branch, completed the Fastnet Challenge aboard Team Spirit, one of Sir Chay Blyth's 67' classic challenge round-the-world ocean racing yachts.
As a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Naval Vessel
JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....
Fair Irene
MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 6.50 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that the owner of a Rye Harbour fishing boat had reported that his boat had not returned from the fishing ground. A fresh north-west wind was...
Red Hackle
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 7.57 in the evening a fisherman reported the local fishing boat Red Hackle in difficulties and drifting towards the rocks a mile west of the harbour. A south-easterly breeze was blowing...
A Motor Boat
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
A woman and a boy were out in a motor boat when the engine failed and the boat went ashore off Moor Sands. The woman climbed up the cliffs and summoned help. The lifeboat went out, but the...
Spinal Board
DonnchúWhen a climber was seriously injured in a fall at Aberdour on 9 February, Kinghorn’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Frederick Robertson was on the scene within 15 minutes. The crew requested the help of an RAF helicopter to get the man...
Category: Articles