LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Inflated Rubber Mattress
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1957, the police reported that a boy was adrift on an inflated rubber mattress off Towyn. At 11.15 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched in a slight sea. There was...
Nancy
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.5 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, news was received that the engine of the pilot launch Nancy had broken down in a position between the North East and Dee buoys while taking a pilot out to a ship. The life-boat Anthony...
Money In Memory
Following the untimely death of Phil Doolan of Fareham, his family asked that money be donated to the RNLI as he was a keen sailor and dinghy instructor.
Phil was a consultant in the defence industry and had a long... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal
Coxswain Barry Bennett - Bronze Medal St Mary's lifeboat, 12 September 1993 Barry Bennett took St Mary's Arun class lifeboat Robert Edgar into a small, shallow and rockstrewn cove to rescue two yachts anchored there and caught out by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
The following RNLI supporters, volunteers and staff have sadly passed away: Mrs Iris M Brookes MBE -fundraiser Mr Brian Caunter -Torbay lifeboat station Assistant Mechanic 1975-2001 Mr Charles R Chatterton - Horton and Port Eynon branch...
Category: Obituaries
Vicunia
At 9.35 P.M. on the 9th January information was tele- phoned from the Coastguard at Re- culvers that a vessel was burning flares about three-quarters of a mile N.W.
from Reculvers. The vessel proved to be the barge...
Alwena
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 4th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a motor launch was flying distress signals off the Point of Air lighthouse, and at 6.30 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was...
Scarborough Evening News Man on the Spot on 7Th August Was Chief Photographer Jay Mason—He Was Taking Pictures of Filey Life-Boat's Demonstration Launch When a Real Rescue Came Up. Th
Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Original Cartoon By Mac of the Daily Mail Was One of the Lots at Truro Branch's Celebrity Auction at New Tregye Hotel Carnon Downs Last September Some 200 Let
An original cartoon by Mac of the Daily Mail was one of the lots at Truro branch's celebrity auction at New Tregye Hotel, Carnon Downs, last September, Some 200 letters written to famous people resulted in 84 buttons for auction. A... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shearwater Press
NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.
Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...
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