LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
IN connexion with the Rye Harbour Life-boat disaster on 10th November, when the whole of the Crew, seventeen in number, lost their lives, Memorial Certificates have been awarded—in addition to the pensions and allowances mentioned...
Category: Awards
Triumph
COBLE ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 4th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had learnt from the coxswain, who had been out on a fishing trip, that one of the small local...
Lifesavers Under a Blue Sky - RNLI Atlantic 75,
Lifesavers under a blue sky - RNLI Atlantic 75, Walters Lifeboat with KNRM Rigid inflatable lifeboat. Christien.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Jim Davidson and Cetrek Md Geoff Warde Hold the Cheque Which Funded the D Class Cetrek
Jim Davidson and Cetrek MD Geoff Warde hold the cheque which funded the D class Cetrek - in which they are standing - at the London Boat Show. With them are Ian Ventham (nearest camera) the RNLI's head of fundraising and two members of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Travelscope
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Category: Advertisement
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
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The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Fordfield had sighted a floating body a mile and a half from Helwick Passage buoy and that she would stand...
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JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard reported that two bathers, men of the R.A.F., were drowning off Perranporth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Delia
AUGUST 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 3.30 in the afternoon, messages were received from the Colwyn Bay police and the Rhyl coastguard that a fishing boat was in distress off Rhos pier, drifting seawards. A strong...