LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (1)
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
Coxswain Blogg's Broadcast.
Gifts still come in answer to the broadcast by Coxswain Henly Blogg, of Cromer, in the "Week's Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C, last March. There have now been 6800 replies amounting to £5, 260. lo....
Category: Articles
The RNLI Flag at the St. Abbs Life-Boat Station Flying at Half Mast
The R.N.L.I. flag at the St. Abbs life-boat station flying at half mast after the death of Princess Marina. On the day of the memorial service all R.N.L.I. flags were flown at half-mast. In May, 1965, Princess Marina made an unofficial visit... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Wellington Bomber
APRIL 13TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.50 in the morning a Wellington bomber crashed in the sea a mile northwest of the life-boat station. The southerly breeze was light, the sea calm. As the coxswain and crew of the...
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
Category: Articles
Scotland Community News
Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news
Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)
Local stations mark 50th...
Category: Articles
Teymar (7)
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
In This Issue
In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
Category: Contents
A Dinghy (2)
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs