LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eve
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 14th of October, 1951, pilots reported that a yacht with a body in tow was off Shoreham, and needed help. At 11.28 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in calm...
The Fundraisers
Clem 1, RNLI 250 A chance meeting with Ray Clemence, former England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper, raised £250.27 for the Clapham, Battersea and Wandsworth branch.
Joe Perry, a set builder for TV shows, met Ray...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat launches on service during the months December 1972, January and February, 1973
Appledore, North Devon December 5.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...
Category: Services
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AUGUST 20TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A barrage balloon had gone adrift, but efforts to capture it were unsuccessful, and it was destroyed by fire from a patrol boat. - Rewards, £14 2s..
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
Category: Articles
Bottom Left - Norwegian Historic Lifeboat, Colin Archer,
Bottom left - Norwegian historic lifeboat, Colin Archer, moors up alongside Waveney class, 44-007.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
Category: Articles
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collections, 1929-30
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
Category: Branches
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SEPTEMBER 20TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An unusual light had been reported, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £9 7s..
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including a Bronze Medal and Vellum services Sepoy Rescue Anniversary 14 Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed the...
Category: Contents