LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busy Month at Port Talbot
September was a busy month for Port Talbot lifeboat station - with the naming the station's new D class lifeboat and a Royal visit by RNLI President HRH the Duke of Kent KG taking place in just over a week of each other.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (R) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson Tow Water Bowser Past Spot Where Road to Spurn Point Was Breached Piles Now
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (r.) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson tow water bowser past spot where road to Spurn Point was breached. Piles now standing some 10 to 12 feet proud of sand were previously almost... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tocoba
EMPTY YACHT TOWED TO QUAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th June, 1962, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken adrift from her moorings at Knott End and was being carried out across...
A Yacht
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Contents
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Why YOU should go Offshore Mike Floyd on why everyone who uses the sea should become an Offshore member - the latest membership grade At the Sharp End Lifeboat services which resulted in...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1881.
Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-...
Category: Committee
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
On Wednesday July 20 Shoreham Ilb Went to the Help of a Dinghy Capsized Off Shoreham Pier In Near Gale Force Winds and a Rough Sea the Three Students Rescue
On Wednesday, July 20, Shoreham ILB went to the help of a dinghy capsized off Shoreham Pier in near gale force winds and a rough sea. The three students rescued wrote to the crew the next day, sending a bottle of wine 'as a token of how... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pride of the Isles
GORLESTON.—At 11.30 P.M., on the 4th May, guns were fired by the St. Nicholas Lightship, in response to which the Lifeboat Leicester immediately put off and proceeded to the Scroby Sand. The weather at the time was thick, with rain; the wind...
Lady of the Isles
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 2.50 a.m. on 4th September, 1966, the motor fishing vessel Lady of the Isles was overdue. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 slipped her moorings at 3.25 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough...