LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Primrose
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.1 on the afternoon of the llth of September, 1956, a message was received from the East pier that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Quern buoy. At 3.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was...
Above: the Wrecked Anzio Off the Lincolnshire Coast In 1966 Top Right: the Lifeboat Cottages at Spurn Head Are to Be Replaced
Above: The wrecked Anzio off the Lincolnshire coast in 1966. Top right: The lifeboat cottages at Spurn Head are to be replaced.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• Dr Robert Haworth, the author of First Aid for Yachtsmen (Adlard Coles, £3.95), is not only the honorary medical adviser to the RNLI's station at Barmouth, but he is also an active member of the ILB crew, and in that capacity was...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
A LIMITED EDITION
I was interested to read in the autumn issue about the City of Sheffield’s return to the city that funded her. I was involved in raising an amount towards that boat when I was an honorary organiser in West...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent's Presidential Address
THE meeting to-day has a twofold purpose; to hear about the work of the Institution during 1946; and to pay our tribute to the gallant self-sacrifice of The Mumbles life-boat crew, for whose families we all have the deepest...
Category: Meetings
Dive for Treasure:
Dive for treasure: Members of the Hoyland Sub-Aqua Club raised more than £400 bv taking to drv land for a sponsored bed push from Hoyland to Barnsley. But to be true to their sport they decided the best place to present the cheque would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launches
Aberdeen ON-1248 (17-24) Fei 8. Feb16.
Febl? 0-428 Nov16. DecIS 0-536 Feb8 Abersoch B 582 Feb5 Aberystwyth B-704 DecU. JanB. Jan29(x2) B-757 Nov16.Nov23.Dec2 Achill Island ON-1240 114-28) Dec2B Aith ON- 1232 (17-14) Feb3...
Category: Services
The Herring Boat British Sovereign
Three days afterwards the same Life- >oat was called out to the aid of the icrring boat British Sovereign, which had Iriven on the Annat Bank. When the jife-hoat reached her she was taking the «a heavily on the starboard quarter and...
Pinda
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 8.22 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Pinda had left Mullion at three o'clock to go on a fishing trip between Mullion and Penzance. There were three people,...