LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frisky,
Salcombe, Devon. At 5.45 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a party of women were stranded near the Pig's Nose. They had landed by dinghy from their motor boat Frisky, which had...
Bravore
APRIL 22ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the naval base that a vessel was sinking south of Gull Buoy. A gentle E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was...
H.M.T. Monimia
FEBRUARY 27TH. - PETERHEAD , ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the Naval Base,through the coastguard, that H.M.T. Monimia was ashore in South Bay, Peterhead. A S. by E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
H.M. Motor Launch No. 219
NOVEMBER 22ND. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 8.5 A.M. a message was received from a naval base that H.M. Motor Launch No.2 1 9 , with a crew of thirteen, was ashore on the east side of Goat Island, in Stornoway harbour, and was in danger...
Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MARCH 1988: Mrs Marjorie Lambert, committee member and patron of Birmingham Branch from 1985 to 1988. She had previously been vice chairman of the Edgbaston and Harborne Ladies' Guild...
Category: Obituaries
A Boat
Open fishing boat on rocks FISHING IN AN OPEN BOAT at about 0200 on Friday, July 9, 1976, Paul Power saw an 18' open boat go on the rocks near Falskirt Rock, 52° 08'N 7° 02'W, but, the area being filled with lobster...
The Scottish AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held on Wednesday 27 April 1994 in the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow's famous City Chambers. The meeting followed a civic reception for awardees and special guests provided by...
Category: Meetings
Rescue
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
'1974 —A YEAR OF TRIUMPH' — His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent, President RNLITHE WORD WHICH SEEMS to have been most readily used by people describing the RNLI's annual general meeting in 1975 was 'moving'. On page 30 we...
Category: Meetings