LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Boat Show By Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
Earls Court, London, January 6 to 16 A SHOP WINDOW FOR THE WORK OF THE RNLIA YEAR OF NATIONAL CELEBRATION for the 25 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign began for lifeboat supporters in January at the 1977 International Boat Show in...
Category: Articles
Normanby Hall
TWENTY-NINE HOURS AT SEA Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.25 a.m.
on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the coaster Normanby Hall had asked for assistance as she was aground off South Rock. The life-boat Constance...
Two Yachts and a Guard Boat
THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN ONE AFTERNOON Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was prepar- ing to launch on exercise in aid of the R.A.F.'s...
Membership News
Boat Show 1995 Once again the RNLI will be at the London Boat Show at Earls Court from 4-15 January inclusive. The show always proves a successful way of recruiting new members and, of course, current members are very welcome to come along...
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Howth - Arun Class Hibernia
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland, Mr Charles Haughey (right) with Mrs Maureen Haughey and RNLI Chairman Mr Michael Vernon at the naming ceremony of the Arun class lifeboat Hibernia at Howth.
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Category: Photographs
Tamars Safely Home
The first of the RNLI's newTamar class all weather lifeboats to be placed on operational service have safely arrived at Tenby, Pembrokeshire (below), and Peterhead, Grampian, and the third is completing her trials for service at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
Category: Articles
Hilary Anne
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 9 p.m. on 29th January, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted one to two miles off Cley. The maroons were fired at 9.10. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd...
Eendracht
DUTCH COASTER AGROUND IN GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch coaster was burning flares and was drifting towards the...
A Dinghy
MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of...