LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helicopter Rescue British Airways Style By J D Ferguson
THE ADVENT OF NORTH SEA OIL has wrought tremendous changes in almost every sphere among the various areas involved. None has been so significantly affected as that of the sea rescue services, this being amply reflected in the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Storming Norman
Norman Whereat, Cirencester branch Chairman is pictured above manning the RNLI stall at a Christmas sale where the total value of goods sold topped £2,500.
Norman is celebrating his 40th year as a member of the branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Retirement Services
Are you a homeowner over 70? Release tax-free Blease tree I cash from your home If you are a homeowner aged over 70 (both over 70 if a couple) you may be able to release some of the money locked in your home to do the things you...
Category: Advertisement
Exercising With the Irish Air Force Rnlb Helen Wycherley
Exercising With The Irish Air Force Rnlb Helen Wycherley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
THREE thousand gas-filled balloons were released from Torquay sea front with cards attached to each balloon bearing the name of someone who had paid one shilling to the Torquay branch of the Institution. Three prizes were awarded for the...
Category: Donations
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
Victoria and Atomic Star
HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.40 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1947, the fishing boat Victoria was seen approaching harbour with the seine-net motor fishing boat Atomic Star in...
Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno
THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer appeared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was...
Category: Services
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (1)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...