LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
TIME, TALENT AND SUPPORT
No less than 74 people took to the stage to accept honorary awards at the afternoon ceremony. ‘They all give generously of their time – some as station personnel, others as officials and members of branches and guilds,’ said Paul...
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Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...
Irex
About midday on the 8th March, the fishing-boat Irex, belonging to Port Patrick, became unmanageable in the S.W. gale and strong tide. As it was seen she could not make the harbour, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was sent...
A Motor Boat
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.
Star-studded postcard sale raises £3,000
An auction of anonymous postcard-sized artwork raised over £3,000 for the RNLI at the Margate Harbour Arm gallery on 11 September.
Celebrities, professional artists and amateurs contributed to the 100 pieces up for...
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Red Jacket and Ebenezer
On the 31st January, two rockets, indicating that the services of the Life-boat were required, were fired from Scurdyness.
The No. 1 Life-boat Robert Henderson was launched at 2.45 P.M., and rendered assistance to the...
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Injured boy RAMSEY COASTGUARD telephoned Peel lifeboat station at 1943 on Tuesday April 20, 1982, asking for immediate help for a boy who had fallen over the cliffs at Eairy Cushlin. Maroons were fired and the crew assembled. The Neil...
Below: 8 May 2007. The Antony Gormley Sculpture On Waterloo Bridge Lends A Helping Hand With Collections
below: 8 May 2007. - View image in PDF
the Antony Gormley sculpture on waterloo bridge lends a helping hand with collections. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Parliamentary Questions
MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...
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Special Appeals
The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...
Category: Donations