LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life Saving Equipment
In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...
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SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.
on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3...
Saleta and Terminist
Walmer, Kent. At 1.42 early on the morning of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out.
At two o'clock the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...
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(Left) a welcome for everyone present from Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bt, president of the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board. Sir Max Aitken is seated on the extreme right.
(Left) A welcome for everyone present from Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bt, president of the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board. Sir Max Aitken is seated on the extreme right.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1864
THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide last page for...
Category: Meetings
Countess Mountbatten
Lady Moimtbatten, C.I., G.B.E..
D.C.V.O., wife of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma, died on the 21st of February, 1960, at the age of 58.
The wide range of charitable work with which she was...
Category: Obituaries
Aquilla
TOWED TO GRIMSBY At 3.41 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties in the moderate seas off the coastguard station.
At 4.34 he...
Contents
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI At the Sharp End Lifeboat services - some seen through the eyes of the casualty The Annual Meetings 14 The Annual General Meeting and the Presentation of Awards were held at the Barbican...
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Pamir
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...