LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For the Third Year Ray Rushton Offered His Car a 1904 Wolseley to the Rnli for Sponsorship In Last November's Veteran Car Run His Passenger Was Charlie Smithers Co
For the third year Ray Rushton offered his car, a 1904 Wolseley, to the RNLI for sponsorship in last November's Veteran Car Run. His passenger was Charlie Smithers, Comedian of The Year in 1974. More than £3,000 was raised. In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Practice makes perfect
A routine exercise on 10 June between The Lizard lifeboat and a naval helicopter became the real thing the following day.
Both were called to the aid of the fishing vessel Harvester, which had reported an engine room fire...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 16th September, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Admiral of the Fleet, The Marquis of Milford Haven, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and of Major Sir E. F....
Category: Committee
Fishing Cobles
In a mode- rate westerly breeze with a growing sea on the evening of the 2nd September, the services of the Life-boat were called for to assist two of the fishing cobles belonging to Staithes. A telegram from Staithes stated that the boats...
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-01.) A Friend, per Pembroke Cox, Mrs. E. E., the late, 116. Hopwood, S. W., Esq., the Eestell, W. T.,...
Category: Donations
News
Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
Category: Articles
Norma, of Bremen
At midnight on the 30th December the same life-boat put off again, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, in reply to signals of distress from the light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands.
While proceeding to the southward at the back of...
A Fourteen-Feet Flat-Bottomed Boat
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 5.30 in the evening, on the 31st of May, 1950, in calm weather, the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched for exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. M.
Clifford Gibbons, and the district...