LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations
Rescues by IRBs in December were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Morecambe, Lancashire - At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd December, 1966, the police were informed that a small boy angling from the shore was in difficulties...
Category: Services
Some of the Tank Test Models for the New Fast Slipway Boat Were Converted for Freerunning, Radio Controlled Handling and Manoeuvrability Trials
Some of the tank test models for the new Fast Slipway Boat were converted for freerunning, radio controlled handling and manoeuvrability trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
Category: Branches
Eight In a Row
Eight in a row Last year 33 members of Wallingford Rowing Club sculled their way down the Thames from Oxford to Wallingf ord to raise money, both for new equipment and for the RNLI. Later, as the picture shows, an 'eight' from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Even In Good Weather
Even in good weather strong rip currents and surf can make the sea at Morgan Forth a dangerous place.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dee Jay
Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...
Whitelink Bay and Gamrie Bay
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
Poole Headquarters July 25 1986:
Poole headquarters, July 25, 1986: When Stephen Willoughby died tragically young, his family decided they would buy a lifeboat in his memory. The relief 16ft D class lifeboat Stephen Willoughby was therefore officially handed over and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
General Index
Balance Sheet Box Collection* . . .
Branch Remittances .
Contributions to Branches .
1 General Contributions ABERATBOB .... 400 : ABERDEEN • • . •...
Category: Index
Bearmania In Berwick
In June, an entire weekend of 'beary' celebrations at Berwick raised an impressive £25,000 for charities - with the local lifeboat station receiving over £6,800 from the coffers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs