LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.

With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF

WEST HARTLEPOOL. — The Life-boat Rochdale proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Royal Albert, of Maldon, which was in imminent danger during a hurricane from the E.N.E. on the 28th October. The vessel's crew of five men were taken...

H.R.H. the Princess Royal named the new Hartlepool motor life-boat "The Princess Royal" on 2ist July. The boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type, was finished in 1939 and went to her station a month after the outbreak of war. She...

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At 9.28 at night the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities requested the services of the life-boat for a vessel reported sinking. A south-east wind was blowing,...

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CHINGFORD.—Address to the Rotary Club by the district organizing secretary.

CLAPHAM.—Annual meeting on 20th October, Mrs. Clarke, chairman, presiding.

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Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The protective lifejacket pictured above for example costs £180, This is where you and a pair of scissors can help.

(below) Mrs Susan Hunter-Pease, wife of Mr Charles Hunter-Pease, the Sates and Marketing Director of Volvo Concessionaires, names the new Mersey Class lifeboat Lifetime Care at a ceremony at the RNLI's Poole depot. The lifeboat is the... - View image in PDF