LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marianne and Atalanta
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.15 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that one boat had capsized and another was in difficulties off Peace- haven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.30 in a light south-easterly...
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People and Places
Ian picks the winners Ian Ventham, RNLI Head of Fundraising and Marketing, (pictured with Judith Saint, Finance and Systems Manager) drew the winners of the Lifeboat Lottery on 29 October. The 87th draw, which took place at lifeboat...
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Elax and Polgarth
DECEMBER 22ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. The No. 2 life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson was launched at 5.40 P.M. as information had been received that a vessel was in distress near C.11 Black Buoy.
A light easterly breeze...
Argound and Holed
Howth’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker III was called out on 10 September when a large powerboat ran aground just off Lambay Island.
At the rocky scene, the lifeboat crew launched their daughter XP boat to get in closer...
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Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
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News and Views
New members for RNLI Committee of Management Four new members were appointed to serve on the RNLI's Committee of Management-the Institution's trustees and controlling body - at its meeting on 28 November 1996.
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People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
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Ann Wilmot
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
Galilee and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9 A.M.
on the 20th August the motor fishing boats Galilee and Venus were expected in from fishing. The sea had gr.own rapidly during the morning, and was then breaking heavily outside' the...