LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
A New Medal for Gallantry
SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals, struck in 1825, had the head of George IV. Although, on his accession to the throne in...
Category: Medals
Noblesse
A narrow escape for Dutch couple at DunbarLifeboatmen and Coastguards hauled a crew of two to safety from a grounded yacht, seconds before falling rocks destroyed the vessel A state-of-the-art £100,000 yacht, Noblesse, was entering...
MLA Unit Trust Management Ltd
Invest in one of this country's Top Performing Unit Trusts and help to pay for a new R.N.L.I. Lifeboat.
PROFESSIONAL FUND MANAGERS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD Investing in M.L.A. General Trust means you will be able to...
Category: Advertisement
Letters
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
Anja
Torbay, Devon. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 13th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Anja of Foxhol was on fire five miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
Prize-Winning Essay
For the second year in succession David Glyn Jones of the Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle School, Penygroes, won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the Lifeboat Service organised by the Institution. The competition -was open to...
Category: Articles
Left. Barometers like this were supplied the 'poorest fishing villages' in the 1800s.
Left. Barometers like this were supplied the 'poorest fishing villages' in the 1800s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above - the Rescued Family. Safe and Well Back at the Station,
Above - the rescued family. - View image in PDF
safe and well back at the station,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salcombe's Tyne Class, the Baltic Exchange II, Searches for Survivors from the Cruiser.
Salcombe's Tyne class, The Baltic Exchange II, searches for survivors from the cruiser.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs