LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
A Strong Appeal
THE manager of a large works in London has sent the Institution an account of the method which was adopted to carry out the annual life- boat appeal. The largest and strongest man in the works was chosen to make it. In one hand he had the...
Category: Donations
Papal Blessing
RNLI Chief Executive Paul Boissier had the honour of meeting Pope Benedict XVI and HM The Queen on 16 September during a Papal visit to Holyrood House in Edinburgh.
Paul joined a number of charity bosses and heads of...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
On the evening of the 20th December a heavy W.N.W.
gale suddenly sprang up, overtaking several of the sprat fishing-boats whilst at sea. All the boats managed to reach the shore in safety with the exception of one, and when...
Gardner Engines (Sales) Limited
Gardner engines have to be good Lives depend on them.
That is why men of the R.N.L.I, deserve the very best in equipment— like the Oakley-designed self-righting lifeboat "The Earl and Countess Howe", powered by...
Category: Advertisement
Lotona
The barquentine Latona, oi Portsmouth, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sun- derland on the 30th January, stranded on the Smithic Sand. A whole gale was blowing from the north with a heavy sea running, and the weather was very cold with snow....
A Canoe
MAY 30TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. A canoe was reported to have sunk leaving a boy, wearing a life-jacket, in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..
A Boat (1)
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset. At 1.30 p.m. on i6th December, 1965, the second coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting, out of control, down the channel on the ebb tide. The life-boat Calouste Gulbenkian was...
An Inland Service
To the help of a flooded farm. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Joanna
YACHT ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Selsey, Sussex. At 10,37 on the morning of the 21st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht, later identified as the Joanna of Shoreham, was in difficulties two to three miles...