LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below: Keryn Van Der Walt and the Pan Alfred Crew.
Below: Keryn van der Walt and the Pan Alfred crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Starshine II
YACHT RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.45 a.m. on 23rd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed approximately half a mile west from Margate Hook Beacon. A helicopter was sent to investigate...
Daisy
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
A Noble Act
AMONGST the many noble deeds of heroism by our Life-boats' crews and others during the recent fearful gale, perhaps none is more deserving of being held up for public admiration and sympathy than that of the Captain of the s.s. Cyprian,...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ONE lesson which has emerged from the large deficit incurred last year is that the R.N.L.I. not only needs more money; it needs money from new sources. The work of the voluntary branches will always be the mainstay of the Institution's...
Category: Articles
Hopwood (1902 to 1924)
Hopwood (7902 to 1924), a 35ft Liverpool, was Portrush's last pulling and sailing lifeboat. Former coxswain Thomas Patton is at her helm. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'Coleraine Chronicle'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Top) 12-009 Indicates a 12M Long Lifeboat
(Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and therefore a Mersey), the leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel (aluminium in the case of Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth of the class to be built.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rentokil Group Ltd
A small service to help a great one Rentokil is proud to have helped in the renovation of a number of R.N.L.I, stations and to have served an Institution whose own traditions of service are without parallel.
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Category: Advertisement
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
Gratitude
Walmer, Kent. At 2.16 on the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat had the ketch Gratitude, of 70 tons, in tow and that the two boats were drifting towards the Goodwin...