LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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INJURED BOY RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the llth March, 1962, the coxswain received a message from the Abersoch fire brigade that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Cilan Head, and that...
The call of the sea
On 14 May 2007, yachtsman and powerboater Geoff Holt was leaving the Hamble river in Hampshire in his aptly named trimaran Freethinker. After months of planning, he had begun the public phase of climbing his ‘personal Everest’ – being the...
Category: Articles
The Pilchard Seine
The Pilchard Seine belonging to this Cove being en- dangered on the 10th October from want of proper mooring, and the weather being too rough for launching any ordinary boat, the Life-boat Western Commercial Traveller, was lent to its crew...
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Atlantic rescues two boys cut off by the tide Framed Letters of Appreciation signed by the Institution's Chairman have been sent to Helmsman Michael Picknett and crew members Michael Hoyle, Barry Knaggs and Gordon Young following a...
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting The 167th Annual General Meeting of the RNLI was held on the morning of 14 May 1991, at the usual venue on the South Bank in London, with the annual presentation of awards for 1990 following in the afternoon at the...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boats for Ships of War
THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
Category: Articles
Nostalgia Direct
YOUR FAVOURITE HYMNS THE JUBILEE CHOIR 38 INSPIRING AND UPLIFTING HYMNS The Lord's My Shepherd • Count Your Blessings • Bless This House • The Old Rugged Cross • When I Survey The Wondrous Cross • All People That On Earth Do Dwell •...
Category: Advertisement
Blyth Motor Life-Boat: The Inaugural Ceremony
THE Blyth station is one of the oldest on the coast — it was established in 1826, two years after the Institution itself was founded — and the inaugural ceremony of the Joseph Adlam, the Motor Life-boat which arrived at the station on 4th...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...