LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brian Sockett Is Taking a Bath Around the Racing Circuit at Lydden Kent the Person Powered Push Which Entailed People from the Dover Area Pulling Or Pushing Peculiar Articles Around the Circui
Brian Socket! is taking a bath around the racing circuit at Lydden, Kent. The Person Powered Push which entailed people from the Dover area pulling or pushing peculiar articles around the circuit brought in £1,098.60 for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland
THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the...
Category: Articles
Ocean Child, and Ketch Happy Return
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ocean Child, of Belfast, bound from Ayr to Lough Swilly with coal, anchored in Skerries Roads at noon on the 20th August, through stress of weather. The wind increased, and at about 4 o'clock on the...
Temperance Pledge
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—While a strong breeze was blowing from N.W. by W., increasing to a gale and accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 18th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching, observed the side-lights of a vessel on the...
Geziena and Courage
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, was lying off Whitby in need of a pilot. As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out,...
Insight
RescUe Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity...
Category: Articles
Atonality
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.52 on the night of the 2nd of March, 1954, the Rame Head coastguard rang up to say that the Fowey life-boat motor mechanic had intercepted a wireless message from the tanker Atonality, of London. This stated that the...
The Fundraisers
Raisers Car booty! Hundreds of people made money from filling their car boots with unwanted items and selling them at the sale organised by Henley branch, but the real winner was the Institution which received a staggering...
Category: Articles
Top RNLI Awards
top RNLi AWARds The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican Centre on 17 May, and Bronze Medals for Gallantry were awarded by HRH The Duke of Kent to Dr Christine Bradshaw (see page 16), Lifeguard Sophie...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
At 8 A.M. on the 10th January eleven of the fishing cobles belonging to Filey put to sea for the purpose of hauling their lines.
Although there was no wind a heavy north-easterly sea was making and when they were about to...