LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
April Meeting.
Burra Isle, Shetlands. — While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the...
Category: Services
(Left) a Knot Board for Hq Museum Poole Presented to Captain Nigel Dixon (I) By Arthur Hull Comes With the Goodwill of Everyone at Atv Network Studios Boreha
(Left) A knot board for HQ museum, Poole, presented to Captain Nigel Dixon (I.) by Arthur Hull comes with the goodwill of everyone at ATV Network Studios, Boreham Wood. The knots were made by Tom Riley, a security officer, the frame by Peter... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top awards for our lifesavers
The Pride of Britain Awards brought RNLI lifesaving to the attention of millions at the end of October when Hartlepool RNLI volunteers received the ITV Daybreak Emergency Services Award.
The volunteers and Hartlepool...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 23RD. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN At 11.35 A.M. information was received through the police that a British aeroplane was in the sea off Dalby. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.10 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .. 2 Profiles 4 Life-saving on the Shannon by M. Duffy .. .. .. .. 6 Letters 8 Royal Blue to the Rescue .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 Plymouth Exhibition .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 The RNLI looks at the...
Category: Contents
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries
WHAT’S ON
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FISH SUPPER AND QUIZ
North Kessock Village Hall,...
Category: Articles
The Search for Edward May
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Gifts for Christmas
WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...
Category: Advertisement
Fishing community
This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
Category: Articles