LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boat fire off beachy head
18 December: Both Eastbourne lifeboats were launched when distress flares were spotted 2 miles south of Beachy Head. A pilot boat that was first on the scene took a lone angler off the ablaze 8.3m motor cruiser...
Category: Articles
A National Fire Service Float
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the naval control asked for the help of the life-boat with a national fire service float which was in difficulties at the loading pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
A Life-Boat Film In Australia
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
Category: Articles
A Neglected Caravan Found In a Field and Bought for £40 Has Been Re-Furbished By Fareham Branch
A neglected caravan, found in a field and bought for £40, has been re-furbished by Fareham branch for fund raising with help in cash and kind from local firms. At Fareham Show, Mrs Wendy Nelson, RO (South), gives a toast to the success... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salute from Friends' An RN Helicopter from Hms Daedalus Flies Past Streaming the Rnli Flag
Salute from friends.' An RN helicopter from HMS Daedalus/7/es past streaming the RNLI flag. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left Below) to Commemorate a Favourite Customer Albert Howes the Talbot Hotel at Ripley Surrey
(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Men Rescued from Dutch Coaster
AT 1.8 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station in County Down, Mr.
S. C. B. Bryans, that the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl of 270 tons was...
Category: Services
Top Award For Polzeath Five
Sunny days at the beach may seem like a distant memory, but the bravery and skill of five RN Ll lifeguards last Summer has recently been recognised with the Alison Saunders Lifeguarding Award- one of our top...
Category: Articles
Five New Life-Boats Named
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
Miss Gaynor Lacey By Courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey
Miss Gaynor Lacey by courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs