LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Owers Lightship
NOVEMBER 9TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard passed on a message from Owers Lightship asking the life-boat to come out to the lightship and take a sick man ashore. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Two Intrepid Travellers John Ford and Melvyn Webster Made a 1000 Mile Dash Last October from St.Helier Jersey to Aith Shetland and Raised £2250 for the Rnli
Two intrepid travellers, John Ford and Melvyn Webster, made a 1,000 mile dash last October from St Helier, Jersey, to Aith, Shetland, and raised £2,250 for the RNLI.
First they flew from St Helier to Southampton, this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) to Celebrate His 65Th Birthday and 50 Years of Lifeboat Service a Special Cake and Presentations for Alfred Payne Westonsuper- Mare's Coxswain from 1948 to 197
(Below) To celebrate his 65th birthday and 50 years of lifeboat service, a special cake and presentations for Alfred Payne, Westonsuper- Mare's coxswain from 1948 to 1970.
Mr Payne had been second coxswain before that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Philip Biidden Jonathan Makins and Richard and Simon Folkes from Charterhouse School Hand Over a Cheque for £1110 to Commander Swann Chairman
Philip Biidden, Jonathan Makins and Richard ami Simon Folkcs, from Charterhouse School, hand over a cheque for i.1,110 to Commander /•'. ./? H. Swann, Chairman of the RNLI. They, with Sehan Anketall (who was unable to be present), raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Anthea Turner and Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's Deputy Head of Fundraising and Marketing, Are Pictured Ready for the Draw Outside the 'Blue Peter' Auction In
(Left) Anthea Turner and Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, are pictured ready for the draw outside the 'Blue Peter' auction in Ringwood with three young fans.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months previously ; and it was also the first...
Category: Services
Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
1,080 Halfpennies
THE Institution has received from a London man a gift of a collection of 1,080 halfpennies.
Category: Donations