LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Model from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
Lv the spring of 1951 the Arts and Crafts Guild of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, held its annual exhibition. Included in it was a life-boat stall, with pictures of life-boats and a model being built of a 52-feet Barnett...
Category: Articles
Maartje, of Rotterdam
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...
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An Aeroplane (7)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—9th July, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.—Rewards, £3 18s..
An Armed Trawler
DECEMBER 23RD. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
An armed trawler, 70 miles away, was reported to be making for Berehaven, with her fore-hold full of water. She could not be found, but it was learnt later that she reached safety. -...
Obituaries
Keith Allday - Barmouth Coxswain Rear Admiral John Anthony Bell - Former President of Wellington branch Gladys Bridge - Macclesfield Branch Committee Member Dorothy MacDonald - Wells-Next-The-Sea Life Vice President Alan Massey - Barmouth...
Category: Obituaries
Insight
RescUe Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity...
Category: Articles
A Dutch fairground organ, 65 years old, has recently raised over £50 for the R.N.L.I.
A Dutch fairground organ, 65 years old, has recently raised over £50 for the R.N.L.I. It belongs to Mr. A. B. Mason of King's Lynn, Norfolk, and travels round the Brancaster area towed by a land rover, with Mr. Mason in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Miss Mackie-Campbell of Stonefield, Argyll, organised an equestrian day and designated the RNLI as a halfbeneficiary.
The event had to be postponed owing to atrocious weather, but in spite of this, when held soon afterwards...
Category: Donations