LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Farewell to Andrew
RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle retired in September after 10 years’ service.
During his time at the RNLI, Andrew led on the creation and introduction of the world’s first Lifeboat College; a world-class lifeguard...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
• In good time for Christmas is another addition to the popular 'People at Work' books in the Ladybird 'Easy-Reading' series nownumbering over 290 titles covering a wide range of subjects and reading ages. It is The Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Record Month by Month
1943 January . 32 76 February . 34 55 March . 33 42 April . . 23 10 May . . 32 24 June . . 29 9 July . . 27 15 August . 41 92 September . 29 42 October . 30 19 November . 49 31 December . 52 54 - - - 5 - - - 3 - - - 3 Totals . 411 469 Number...
Category: Annual Reports
Retirement
Mrs. R. H. Robinson, of Reigate, who for 20 years was the District Organising Secretary for the R.N.L.I, in south east England, retired at the end of last year. Committee members of the 160 branches in the south east district subscribed to a...
Category: Committee
Alnora
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 27th of February, 1949, information was re- ceived that a man a woman and three children had put out in the motor boat Alnora from Landermere Creek for the Walton Yacht...
An Auster Aircraft (2)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
Yves Chantral, of St. Malo
Fowey, Cornwall - At 11.5 p.m. on 5th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare two to three miles south of Gorran Haven. The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings at 11.38 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a moderate sea....
The S.S. Ville de Gand
AUGUST 2 5TH. - GALWAY BAY, CO.
GALWAY. At 10 A.M. a m e s s a g e w a s received from the military coastguard lookout at Oghil Lighthouse that a boat was drifting four miles to the south-west, but it was not certain if...