LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sisters
The James Stevens No. 9 Life-boat was called out by distress signals from the Nore Light- vessel at about 5.30 A.M. on the 8th February. On the arrival of the Life- boat the master at the Nore reported that he was repeating signals from the...
A Sailboard, PowerBoats and a Yacht
Anticipatory launch ends in eight calls on two lifeboats Eastbourne South East Division Both of Eastbourne's lifeboats were launched in anticipation of problems on 17 July 1988, when freshening conditions on the day of the London to...
Four Years of War.
In four years of war our life-boats have rescued 5288 lives. They have rescued more lives in these four years of war than in the last fifteen years of peace. They have rescued 25 lives every week.
Life-boatmen have been...
Category: Articles
Honours for Honorary Workers
Miss Alice Marshall, of Oxford ; Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., of Tynemouth.
THE Committee of Management at their meeting last June elected Miss Alice Marshall, the retiring Honorary Secretary of its Oxford Branch, a...
Category: Awards
Margaret Mitchell Wife of a Fleet Branch Committee Member Leaves Raising Money to Her Cat Perdita Instead of Selling Perdita's Kittens Mrs Mitchell Asks New Owner
Margaret Mitchell, wife of a Fleet branch committee member, leaves raising money to her cat, Perdita. Instead of selling Perdita's kittens, Mrs Mitchell asks new owners to make a donation to the RNLI.
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Category: Photographs
Boat World (Publications)
BOAT WORLD The Sail and Powercraft Yearbook NEW IDEAS COASTAL SAILING CENTRES COASTAL CLUBS & CLASSES SAFETY & SEAMANSHIP BUY-A-BOAT GUIDE ELECTRONICS FOR SMALL CRAFT GEAR& FITTINGS MARINE ENGINES 12th Annual Edition. Price £...
Category: Advertisement
More Life-Boat Days Wanted!
A request has been made by a visitor to Newquay, Cornwall, that there should be more than one Life-boat Day each year, and the request is heartily supported by one of the local newspapers, the Bodmin Guardian.
The visitor...
Category: Articles
Diana
The ketch Diana, of Rye, bound from that port to St. Andrews with a cargo of gravel, arrived on the 13th April, but was unable to make the harbour owing to the state of the tide. The captain there- fore anchored about a mile to the north of...
New Rnli Tractor for Carriage Lifeboats
A NEW PROTOTYPE launching tractor was placed on extended evaluation trials at Ffoylake lifeboat station on Tuesday April 12, 1983. This new tractor has been developed jointly by the Institution and M. A. Bigland (Preparations) Limited of...
Category: Articles
Northern Ireland
THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...
Category: Articles