LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES, YoBxsmM.—The sudden rising of the sea, on the 17th April, rendered it dangerous for some of the fishing cobles to return to the shore.
The Life-boat Jonathan Stott was therefora launched at about 1.15 P.M. and...
A Gallant Young Corporal
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
Category: Articles
Nymfea
SHIPS IN COLLISION Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.5 a.m. on 15th July, 1965, a collision was reported to have occurred ten miles south-by-east of Beachy Head. One of the vessels was sinking. At 1.20 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a...
A Sea Cadet Whaler and Gypsy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a Sea Cadet whaler, with three men on board, was on the rocks near Seaforth radio station. At six o'clock the life-boat...
Littleover and Ilkeston Branches
Boxing clever: Les Brunskill of Alvaston, Derby, makes bird boxes and sells them for £2.50 each, all of which goes to the RNLI. He has made no fewer than 185 of them so far, at a total value of £462.50. He charges nothing for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Not Such a Catastrophe!
Not such a catastrophe! A black-tipped British shorthaired kitten named 'Oakley' shows great interest in the contents of the collecting box his owner Mike Evans, honorary secretary of Loughton and District branch, uses for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Just One of the Cheques Presented at the Show - More Than £95,000 from The
(Left) Just one of the cheques presented at the show - more than £95,000 from the Royal Bank of Scotland, the proceeds of the affinity credit card for the year. A delighted Ian Ventham, RNLI head of fundraising (left) receives the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. R. C. Tremlett, a well-known bass fisherman in the Portsmouth area, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by giving talks, illus- trated by films and slides, on fishing and then making collections. Another film that...
Category: Donations
In June a Spanish Life-Boat Delegation, Led By the Conde De Toreno, President of the Spanish Red Cross Society, Visited England. Here the Party Is Pictured at Life-Boat House, London, With (Left T
In June a Spanish life-boat delegation, led by the Conde de Toreno, president of the Spanish Red Cross Society, visited England. Here the party is pictured at Life-boat House, London, with (left to right) Captain Nigel Dixon, Secretary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs