LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Yachts
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was apparentlyin trouble and was drifting towards Pendine. Someone on board was waving a shirt. The...
Jean
Stronsay, Orkney Islands. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1960, a local resident told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was in difficulties close in to Warness and needed assist- ance. The life-boat John Gellatly...
A Dinghy (6)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy fitted with an outboard engine, with two children on board, had run out of petrol and was in the tide...
The Polar Challenge
RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat People
Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
Category: Articles
Galway Medals. Presented By President Cosgrave
Presented by President Cosgrave.
THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...
Category: Medals
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Feature Just Like the Real Thing
Training simulatorThe future of training With lives at risk at sea, the RNLI takes its training very seriously, but serious training doesn't have to be dull or old-fashionedImagine you're out on a shout in storm force conditions....
Category: Articles
The Rye Life-Boat Disaster
The Mayor of Rye's Fund; Mcmcrials to the Seventeen Life-boatmen.
ON 22nd June a meeting was held between the Attorney-General (Sir William* Jowitt, E.G.) and the Trustees of the Fund which the Mayor of Rye raised for...
Category: Articles
Sub-Divisional Officer Clive Buckley
Sub-divisional officer Clive Buckley puts on a brave face as he prepares for his 160ft daredevil leap! Photo The Western Morning News Company. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs