LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Open Days 1984 Poole
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 19 Friday July 20 Saturday July 21 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm FOR ITS 160th anniversary year, the RNLFs head office and depot will once again be open to the public and there will be an...
Category: Articles
Gull (1)
Margate, Kent. At 9.45 on the morning of the 27th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec-retary that a motor yacht had broken down two miles north-east of Kingsgate and was sending distress signals by morse lamp. At 10.4 the...
Garnock
Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an...
Rnli Kensington Branch
RNLI Symbol Sweater This unique sweater in navy courtelle or botany wool has the RNLI symbol woven in.
Adults sizes 34" to 46" and crew neck style only.
Botany Wool El loo Prices include 15% VAT...
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Rnli Kensington Branch
RNLI Symbol Sweater This unique sweater in navy courtelle or botany wool has the RNLI symbol woven in.
Adults sizes 34" to 46" and crew neck style only.
Bomny Wool £1 loo Prices incljde 15%...
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Snowdon Range
The steam- ship Snowdon Range, of Sunderland, which passed through and survived such a succession of misfortunes in mid- Atlantic, came very near to being wrecked when being towed into harbour on the 14th January. The disabled steamer was...
When He Landed This 21 Pound Salmon
When he landed this 21 pound salmon, Commander William Donald, chairman of Keswick branch, was so pleased that he sent the equivalent amount in sterling to the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of P. Haworth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Met Office
THE WEATHER TO SAIL, OR NOT.
PORTSMOUTH BRIGHTON BOURNEMOUTH Accurate information on weather conditions is essential for all seagoing activities. You can obtain detailed descriptions of present conditions, the 24 hour...
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Medals of the National Shipwreck Institution
WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...
Category: Medals
Rapid
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...