LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
SERVICES: RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS
WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west force 5 to 6 with rain...
Category: Services
The Latest 52Ft Arun Lifeboat
. . . the technical development of new lifeboats: (right) the latest 52ft Arun lifeboat, Duchess of Kent, the gift of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England and destined for the relief fleet. The CRp-hul/ed Arun is the largest and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News and Views
The Beach Rescue tna scheme showed off its first ever beach lifeguards at two photocells on Friday 25 May.
Lifeguards were put through their paces at two locations - Fistral beach at Newquay in Cornwall and Sandbanks beach...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
News and Views
New hand at the helm Andrew Freemantle, MBE has been appointed the new Director of the RNLI. He will succeed Lieutenant Commander Brian Miles, CBE, who retires at the end of the year after 34 years with the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Dry Run for a Lifeboat!
Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI News
HM The Queen visits Fraserburgh station Monday 22 June was a proud day for Fraserburgh as HM The Queen toured the town's lifeboat station.
In her capacity as Patron of the RNLI, she received a cheque for £305,613,...
Category: Articles
Sunday May 26 1974: North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter Iii Took Medical Assistance to a Boy Who Had Fallen Over the Cliff In a Bay Which Could Only Be Reached from Seaward T
Sunday, May 26, 1974: North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III took medical assistance to a boy who had fallen over the cliff in a bay which could only be reached from seaward. The boy was found to be too badly injured to be taken off by sea, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Foreign Coin Has Been Pouring Into Poole Hqfrom Collecting Points Generously Set Up Last Year By Lipton's at Their 850 Stores In England and Wales (1 to R) N
(Right) Foreign coin has been pouring into Poole HQfrom collecting points generously set up last year by Lipton's at their 850 stores in England and Wales. (1. to r.) Numismatists John Phillimore and Colin Day with Cdr Ted Pritchard,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs