LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Edward Heath on a Visit to the R.N.L.I, Stand at the International Boat Show In London In 1968. a Letter In His Capacity As Prime Minister Is Reproduced on the Facing Page. Last Year He Was Ele
Mr. Edward Heath on a visit to the R.N.L.I, stand at the International Boat Show in London in 1968. A letter in his capacity as Prime Minister is reproduced on the facing page. Last year he was elected Yachtsman of the Year by the Guild of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Sharp End
A selection of lifeboat services from around the country Wells East Division Three saved .from stranded vessel Aservice to a fishing vessel in gale force winds, darkness, shallow water and heavy breaking seas has earned Wells lifeboat...
Category: Services
Collectors' Books Ltd
For 20 years Collectors' Books has offered the pick of yachting books in its twiceyearly brochures. Now a selection is included in The Lifeboat. For every book you order from this advertisement Collectors' Books will donate £2...
Category: Advertisement
In Conference
Every four years the lifeboat nations of the world gather at a different venue to share and exchange information and technical expertise.
The 16th Conference was held in early June 1991 at Oslo.
Edward...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
One of the most outstanding services in the history of the Life-boat Institution is described in this number of THE LIFE-BOAT. It was carried out by the Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats and led to the award of two gold medals. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
The Naval Motor Fishing Vessels 96 and 611
DECEMBER 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported distress signals east-south-east of Walton. The night was very dark, with rain. A strong east-south-east wind was blowing and the sea was very rough...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
WHEN RICHARD EVANS, the former Moelfre coxswain, concluded his reply to the toast of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution at a dinner given by the Corporation of London in Guildhall on April 26 to mark 'The Year of the Lifeboat',...
Category: Articles
(Right) Coxswain John Collins Baltimore
(right) Coxswain John Collins, Baltimore. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
In 1965 the life-boat service had by far its busiest year since the Institution was founded in 1824. There were 1,038 launches by life-boats on service and 462 by inshore rescue boats. Life-boats saved the lives of 562 people and IRBs...
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LIFE-BOAT TOWED BULLOCK At 3.50 p.m. on 2ist November, 1965, a farmer informed the coxswain that a bullock had fallen over the cliff at East Pickard Bay and asked for the life-boat's assistance. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary...