LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
a r o u n d and about t h e RNLI Commissioned to choose the winners! Winners of the RNLI's 53rd national lottery were drawn on 30 April by Robin Guthrie, Chief Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.
Mr Guthrie, who...
Category: Articles
Sway
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.57 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the life-boat E.M.E.D. left Har- wich for her station, after towing in the motor fishing vessel Binny Stewart.
But shortly afterwards, at 12.22,...
Aloma
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
People and Places
Mr Rumbold serves up the winners Nicholas Smith, alias Mr Rumbold in the BBC television comedy programme 'Are You Being Served?', picked the winning tickets in the RNLI's 77th lottery on 30 April 1997.
Nicholas...
Category: Articles
Lord Saltoun, a Vice-President of the RNLI, Congratulates Mr. W. A. P. Cormack, Honorary Secretary of the Peterhead Life-Boat, on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebrations on 26th June
Lord Saltoun, a Vice-President of the RNLI, Congratulates Mr. W. A. P. Cormack, Honorary Secretary of the Peterhead Life-Boat, on the Occasion of the Centenary Celebrations on 26th June. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...
The Belgian Fishing Boat Anna Maria and Mobeka (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND P O R T P A T R I C K , W I G T O W N - SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was...
A Sailboard (1)
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
October
Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...
Category: Services
Sir William's Name Lives on In the Shape of the Latest Douglas Lifeboat, the 1988-Built Tyne Class Sir William Hillary
Sir William's name lives on in the shape of the latest Douglas lifeboat, the 1988-built Tyne class Sir William Hillary. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs