LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marlborough
JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.
- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...
Lightvessel Irb
At the request of the Government a rescue craft provided by the Royal National Life-boat Institution is now stationed aboard a lightvessel, from which she may be used for life-saving purposes. The experiment is a joint venture by the R.N.L.I...
Category: Articles
Advice to Yachtsmen
[The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter are used for sea rescue work around the coasts of the United...
Category: Articles
English Rose III
Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
A Rowing Boat
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...
Wellington
On the evening of the 10th November a mounted messenger arrived, and reported that a vessel was riding at anchor in the bay outside the bar, and making signals for the Life-boat. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W at the time. The...
Havfru
A Fine Cromer Service.
" 'Tis not in mortals to command success," though none deserve it better than a Life-boat crew, battling with the elements for the lives of their fellowmen.
It is our...
Year of the Lifeboat 1 Pint Queens Ware Mug By Wedgwood Is Illustrated (Black on Cream) With Portrait of Sir William Hillary Founder of Rnli and Reproduction of Pai
'Year of the Lifeboat' I pint Queens Ware mug by Wedgwood is illustrated (black on cream) with portrait of Sir William Hillary, founder of RNLI, and reproduction of painting of a lifeboat attending a wreck at the mouth of the Tyne,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Bandsmen dig deep Three members of the Royal Artillery Band dug deep to pull the winning tickets for the 55th National Lottery from the drum on Thursday 31 October 1991.
The band, which was appearing at the Pavilion Theatre...
Category: Articles