LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 4.25 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the police that cries for help had been heard coming from the sea half a mile east of the station.
At 4.30 the IRB launched on a...
A Rowing Boat
THREE MEN LANDED FROM ROWING BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1962, news was received that a man in a canoe had left Llandudno at 9.15 that morning and had not returned. A fresh south-east wind...
Diana
The ketch Diana, of Rye, bound from that port to St. Andrews with a cargo of gravel, arrived on the 13th April, but was unable to make the harbour owing to the state of the tide. The captain there- fore anchored about a mile to the north of...
Lucille
A motor boat named Lucille, belonging to the local Sea Scouts, left Piel about 10 A.M.
on the 20th August for a return trip to Fleetwood. She had not returned by 10.20 P.M., and no news could be got of her, so the Motor...
Functional Clothing
Functional Airflow" Jacket and Overtrousers Royal National Life-Boat Institution in 1471 the RNLI adopted Functional for Offshore Stations The clothing has been well received by our crews who operate in severe conditions for prolonged...
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Summary of the Year's Work
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.
By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...
Category: Annual Reports
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
Category: Donations
Classified Advertisements
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Saved from the freezing sea
A couple made a desperate call for help in the early hours of 20 December 2009 when their motorboat got into difficulties in near-gale conditions and snow showers off the mouth of the Humber.
The batteries to their VHF...
Category: Articles
1991 Volvo Winners
Pictured below are Mr Andrew Cubie ws, member of the Institution's fund raising committee, and Mr Hugh Reid, Scottish dealer development manager, Volvo Concessionaires Ltd, with the winning ticket for the Scotland/North West draw which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs