LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flamborough: a Service of Re-Dedication Witnessed By Some 5000 People Was Held at North Landing Flamborough on Sunday
Flamborough: A service of re-dedication witnessed by some 5,000 people was held at North Landing, Flamborough, on Sunday August 7 for the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Will and Fanny Kirby. The lifeboat, originally in service at Seaham until... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Monev
'A Queen's Gala' at Pitcaple Castle, Inverurie, on Sunday June 10 raised £1,600 for the lifeboat service. During the afternoon six scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots were danced on the lawn by pupils of the Anne...
Category: Donations
Bounty, of Jersey
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Category: Services
Flag Days: An Answer to the Critics
THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.
"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...
Category: Articles
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles
Rescue Cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (Left) and R S Platou of Norway Both Are Designed to Accompany Their Fishing Fleets to Sea
Rescue cruisers from Scandinavia: Sigurd Golje of Sweden (left) and R. S. - View image in PDF
Platou of Norway. Both are designed to accompany their fishing fleets to sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Fighting Services.
In 1942 the Navy, Army and Air Force, with their Women's Services, contributed £19,385. All three contributions were much larger than in 1941. The Navy's was twelve times as much as in the last year of peace; the Army's...
Category: Articles
From Golf Clubs.
In 1942 seventy-seven golf clubs held competitions for the Life-boat Service and they raised £395. This is the largest sum received from golf clubs since these competitions were started Jn 1931..
Category: Articles