LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Stamps
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
Category: Articles
Austerity
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.3 on the evening of the 26th December, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Austerity of London had wirelessed that one of her crew was injured and that she wished to land him...
The Fishing Trawler Northern Star
Fouled propeller stops Northern Star On Sunday. 12 August, Bantry Coast Guard Radio received a request for assistance from the fishing trawler Northern Star. She had a fouled propeller and was unable to free herself. The Castletownbere Arur...
Empress
Workington, Cumberland - At midnight on 2nd December, 1968, the coxswain reported that a fishing boat was overdue. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 12.20 in a moderate easterly wind with a smooth sea. The...
Keep on Running By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
THE AMERICAN obsession with health and physical fitness has spread, to a certain degree, to this country in recent years, resulting in the popularity of jogging as a sport for growing numbers of people.
Members of...
Category: Articles
New Vice-President
LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution.
Lord Winster, who was Governor and C.-in-C. of Cyprus from 1947 to 1949 and was formerly M.P. for Bas- ingstoke and Nuneaton, has been a...
Category: Committee
A Boat (Fomer Naval Pinnace)
MAY 1ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At eight in the evening the St. Abbs Head signal station telephoned that a boat was apparently stationary about ten miles westnorth- west of St. Abbs Head. The weather was fine, but as the...
In the Long Run
Sprinting in to the 'finish line' at Dover Edward Jones cheques in with his contribution to the RNLI's funds.
Edward had met the crew of the Dover lifeboat while on holiday in the area, and was so impressed by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Wireless Programme
MK. EDGAR H. JOHNSON, the District Organizing Secretary for the North of England, arranged a special programme for the British Broadcaatmg Corporation, called " My Life-boat Programme," which, on. 4th May, was broadcast from the...
Category: Articles
Two Gallant Life-Boat Rescues
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
Category: Articles