LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£45,000 from An Aeroplane
The Newquay life-boat went out in a fog to a crashed, aeroplane. She found no one alive,'but. she brought ashore twelve bodies, mail bags and £45,000 in 100-dollar bills..
Category: Articles
Gala Cheque
Members of Anstruther lifeboat crew and gala committee hand over a cheque for £5,000 to Kieran Nash, deputy divisional inspector of lifeboats for Scotland. Proceeds were from Anstruther gala day which was held on 13 July 1996..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Richard Walsh, of the Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, life-boat—the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley which is described on page 678. He became bowman in 1938, second coxswain in 1941 and finally coxswain in 1946. Coxswain Walsh was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Post Office and British Telecom Fund Half Marathon Which Was Held In Windsor Great Park
Coxswain Vic Marsh of Swanage is seen helping Ertugrul Gomec to navigate after the finish of the Civil Service, Post Office and British Telecom Fund half marathon which was held in Windsor Great Park last June. He was the one paraplegic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Ronald Hardy Presents Members of Swanage Crew to His Royal Highness: (' to R) Walter Bishop John Bishop Philip Dorey Eric Dorey (Shaking Hands) and Se
Coxswain Ronald Hardy presents members of Swanage crew to His Royal Highness: (.'. to r.) Walter Bishop, John Bishop, Philip Dorey, Eric Dorey (shaking hands) and Second Coxswain/Mechanic Victor Marsh. photographs by J. P.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guest Speaker at the Awards Ceremony Richard Branson
Guest speaker at the Awards ceremony Richard Branson with RNLI medal winners Fergal Walsh fright) and Nick Beale. Accounts of their medal-winning rescues can be found on pages 14 and 18 of this magazine respectively.. - View image in PDF
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William (Bill) Oilier,
William (Bill) Oilier, vice chairman of New Romney, Romney Marsh and Littlestone branch, joined the fundraising committee in 1992. Previously station honorary secretary of Dungeness station branch from 1979 to 1987 and deputy launching...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Joan Mant
Mrs Joan Mant, vice chairman of Bath Ladies' Guild since 1980 and a very longstanding member of the committee.
Category: Obituaries
A Fortress Aeroplane
JANUARY 20TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A Fortress aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she had come down just inshore on a flooded marsh.
- Rewards, £15 9s..