LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Getting to Know Her
The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
Category: Articles
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N.
(Late Chief Inspector of Life-boats). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
Raymond Roddie High Chief Ranger of the Ancient Order of Foresters
Raymond Roddie, High Chief Ranger of the Ancient Order of Foresters, presents cheque for £60,000 to Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI. On Mr Roddie's left is Raymond McHale, High Sub-Chief Ranger, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some of the New Trent Class Can Be Funded By Single Legacies Or Appeals
Some of the new Trent class can be funded by single legacies or appeals - this is Fishguard's Blue Peter VII, funded by the BBC television programme's appeal - but increasingly it is necessary to fund or top-up from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, J.P., Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Blakeney Branch
BY the death last November, at the age of 83, of Mr. C. J. Temple-Lynes, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Life-boat Station which the Institu- tion has maintained at Blakeney, Norfolk, since 1862, the Institution has lost a valued...
Category: Obituaries
May
Launches 22. Lives rescued 17.
MAY 4TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Early in the morning , information was received from the coastguard that signals had been seen seven to eight miles N.N.W. of Kinnaird Head, and at...
Category: Services
Branch Members Raising Funds for the Institution In Chelmsford Shopping Precinct
Branch members raising fundsfor the Institution in Chelmsford shopping precinct.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Spray (1)
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Large Crowds Gathered Four Times a Day to Watch the Combined RAF and RNLI Rescue Displays.
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs