LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St.Bernard's School Barrow
Up, up and away.' Fund raisers launched 1,000 balloons from Si Bernard's School, Barrow to help buv a lifeboat. It was all part of a national event organised by the Keep Fit Association to raise cash for the RNLI. Terry Downing, hon... - View image in PDF
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Torbay
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping... - View image in PDF
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Spurs, of Grimsby
JANUARY 20TH and 21ST. - ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN NORTH PIER LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, AND ABERDEEN TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 7.30 in the evening the steam trawler Spurs, of Grimsby, on her way to the fishing grounds, but trying to get into...
H.M. Submarine Universal (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.
H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...
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Tow the goat ashore! Tiffany, Timothy, Chocolate Drop, Snuffles and Gem were five goats who had got quite used to their lonely existence on the isle of Inchkeith in the Forth estuary.
When the Allandale Animal Sanctuary...
Gower Pride
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
The Last of the Western Farmer
The Last of the Western Farmer. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Days In 1938
DURING 1938 life-boat flag days were held by 772 of the 1,072 branches of the Institution, seven fewer than the record number of 1937. The amount collected on those days was £43,839 which was the largest total since 1930, and an...
Category: Articles
Rewards for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ONE of the most important features in the organisation of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it, is to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from ship- wreck...
Category: Articles
Two Cheque Boost
While the prototype FAB 3 was paying a visit to Castletown Harbour on the Isle of Man in August the event was marked by the presentation of two cheques to the RNLI.
Stephen Foulkes (right in the picture) presented £500... - View image in PDF
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