LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
Category: Articles
People & Places
Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...
Category: Articles
Busby
Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.14 p.m. on; 6th February, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that the small tanker Busby was in difficultiei with her steering gear broken down off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boatMichael and Lily Davis slipped...
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FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
Our Inland Branches. Rochdale
ROCHDALE is built on both banks of the River Roach, whence it derives its name; but the Rochdale of the present day differs widely from that of barely one hundred years ago. Then this quaint old town of industry and traffic occupied a...
Category: Articles
Search and Rescue Chart Key
1. No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit—two rescue/target towing launches (can be made available for S. & R.).
2. R.N. Dragonflies from station flight available for S. & R. duty, from 08.00 hours to...
Category: Charts
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1990
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Category: Services
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Point Girl
Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 30th November the motor lifeboat Laurana Sarah Blunt went out on exercise. When near Cape! Island, she saw two men in a small fishing boat, about a mile and a half S.E. of the island, waving for...
BUSY YEAR FOR COASTGUARDS
A record number of 2,878 people were rescued as a result of action by H.M.
Coastguards in the 12 months ending 31st March, 1969. This was 379 more than in the previous 12 months. Coastguards took part in 2,444 rescue...
Category: Articles