LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from a Collector of Flags
A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...
Category: Donations
The Coningbeg Lightvessel (1)
SICK MAN At 12.20 p.m. on nth February, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man on the Coningbeg Lightvessel needed to be taken ashore. No other suitable boat being available the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont proceeded to...
A Yacht (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At i .20 p.m.
on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was seen being driven ashore on Pilling sands. At 1.30 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched in a southerly gale and a rough sea. It was one...
Appledore- Tyne Class George Gibson
Appledore's new Tyne class lifeboat was named at a ceremony at the town's quay on 25 June 1988.
Major David Gibson, elder son of George Gibson, the donor after whom the boat is named, handed the boat over to Air... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Elwine, of St. Ives
WINTERTON.—On the morning of the 25th December signals of distress were observed from a schooner ashore about 3 miles north of Winterton. The Ann Maria Life-boat was thereupon launched, and rescued the crew, 6 in number, from the vessel,...
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police Are Introduced to Hm the Queen
Mrs Brian Miles. RNLI Director Lt Cmdr Brian Miles. Mrs Ian Oliver, and Dr Ian Oliver of Grampian Police are introduced to HM The Queen, with the Lord Lieutenant for Aberdeenshire. Captain Colin Farquharson. in attendance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1936 to 31st January, 1937
Greater London.
BARNEHURST.—Mrs. Pickering ap- pointed honorary secretary.
BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON AND CARSHALTON.—Lantern lecture to the Women's Citizens Association by the dis- trict organising...
Category: Branches
Cover Picture
by Dave Trotter The new Mersey class 12-002, to be named Sealink Endeavour, makes her public debut at a special press day at Hastings during July. She is to be stationed at Hastings once operational trials are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elisabeth
Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 525 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
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