LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December
Launches 34. Lives rescued 34.
DECEMBER 1 ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair...
Category: Services
Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Exercise Poolespill
'At 0600 on Friday, October 24, 1975, an oil tanker struck a submerged object off Studland Bay, Dorset, and 200 tons of oil spilled into the sea . . . . Miles of beaches, and marine and bird life, were threatened by what looked like a...
Category: Articles
Mirza
OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...
Life-Boat Essay Competition. Presentation of the Prizes in the London District
Presentation of the Prizes in the London District. LAST year, for the first time, the presentation of the prizes won in this com- petition in the London area (consistingof the schools under the London County Council) took place at one...
Category: Articles
Gift from a Will
THE Institution has received a gift of £50 from the surviving brother and sister of a marine surveyor in Wales who died intestate at the end of 1951.
They write that they know their brother had a great admiration for...
Category: Donations
Washed away
Flood rescue has unique risks and challenges but, with specialist skills and determination, achievement against the odds is possible as our volunteers found in Umberleigh and St Asaph...
Category: Articles
Franklin Mint Limited,
THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE Engraved bolster, selectively plated with 22 carat gold, features an intricate portrayal ol the rainbow trout.
Issued in a Collector's Edition.
Handsomely...
Category: Advertisement
A Six-Year-Old Storm Force Member Stuart Tarvit of St.Monans Fife
A Six-year-old Storm Force member Stuart Tarvit, of St Monans, Fife, must be one of the voungest readers of THE LIFEBOAT. A very keen supporter of the RNLI (lifeboat posters adorn his bedroom walls), for his sixth birthday, instead of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
November
Launches 62 Lives rescued 8
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set...
Category: Services