LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BBC Wales Are Filming a New Drama Based
BBC Wales are filming a new drama based on the novel Ennals Point by Alun Richards.
The novel is about life in a fictitious lifeboat village and the six part television series is being filmed at The Mumbles. Philip Madoc... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The London Fish Carrier Bellona II
OCTOBER 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At 8.8 P.M. the London fish c a r r i e r B e l l o n a I I , bound from Hull to Iceland, was bombed by a German aeroplane and set on fire when about four and a half miles E.S.E. of...
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
More Than 50 Hardy Walkers Set Off on a 20 Mile Trek from Whitstable Harbour
More than 50 hardy walkers set off on a 20 mile trek from Whitstable harbour to boost funds for the planned extension to the boathouse. Chairman of the fund raising committee, Mrs Linda Livingstone, organised the sponsored walk to Faversham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dun Laoghaire September 201986:
Dun Laoghaire, September 20,1986: It was not only a D class inflatable lifeboat that was being handed over to Dun Laoghaire lifeboat station, but a boathouse as well. Sean Barrett, TD (left), Minister of State to the Taoiseach, on behalf of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Award to Weymouth Doctor
Dr. E. J. Gordon Wallace, the honorary medical adviser to the Weymouth life- boat station, has been awarded a certificate on vellum for the part he played when the Weymouth life-boat put out to a yacht on ipth June,...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...
Category: Articles
Doctor's island call-out
CLIFDEN | 23 DECEMBER
An elderly resident of Inishturk Island was able to spend Christmas at home, after volunteer crew from Clifden Lifeboat Station sped the local doctor to his bedside in an...
Category: Articles
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire - 31st January, 1969, the coastguard reported that an ex-R.N.L.I. Jife-boat on passage from Newlyn to Rosslare had developed engine trouble and required life-boat assistance. The Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
A Stitch In Time
A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
Category: Articles