LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Calendars and Cards
ONCE again the Institution will have on sale a pictorial calendar. This, for 1968, will consist of a very striking cover, bearing a dramatic colour picture taken at sea from the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat, and the months spread over...
Category: Advertisement
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
Ann, of Torquay
On the night of the 23rd March the services of this valuable life-boat were again brought into requisition. During a ter- rific gale of wind from the S., and a very heavy sea, the beachmen on the look-out had observed a vessel driving with...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held on the 18th January, and was presided over by Mr. CHABLIS G. TURNER, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Revenue. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported a further...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Baron Carnegie
JUNE 11TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEM- BROKESHIRE. At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval base had reported a boat, from a vessel in distress, twelve miles north of St. David’s Head, and the motor life-boat Civil Service...
Personal Assistant to the Secretary
LIEUT.-COL. CHARLES EARLE, D.S.O., O.B.E., has been appointed Personal Assistant to the Secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown.
Lieut.-Colonel Earle was born in 1913 and educated at Wellington and the...
Category: Articles
NEW BRANCHES
A new branch was formed in Maidstone, Kent, during March (chairman B. Birchall and honorary secretary P. Clarke) and it has set itself a target of £1,000 for 1975. Anyone in the area who would like to help will be...
Category: Branches
A Sailing Dinghy
At 6.15 p.m. on 4th June, 1970, a member of the crew of the Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, IRB saw a sailing dinghy with one man on board in difficulties three quarters of a mile off shore. The IRB was launched at 6.20.
There...
Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Almost £1000 Was Raised for the Rnli
Almost £1,000 was raised for the RNLI by runners in Wolverhampton marathon in March. Ray Adams (r} raised £622; he is part-time barman of the Hop Pole, run by- Dick and Maureen Moore, which was the focal point for RNLI activities... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs