LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Early Publicity:
Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION forwarded to this important station, in September last, a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat and transportingcarriage, in the place of the boat and carriage previously there, the old boat...
Category: Articles
Franklin Mint Limited,
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Category: Advertisement
Free range
With the recession, volcanic ash, and concerns for the environment, more people are taking holidays closer to home, especially to walk our coastal paths. What is the impact on the RNLI?
Waves crashing on a sandy beach or...
Category: Articles
Tributes to Life-Boat Crews
MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
Category: Correspondence
Casamance (3)
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...
Brighton's Atlantic 75 Named
On 19 October some 200 people gathered in Brighton Marina village square for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Thelma Glossop which was funded by Mr and Mrs Roy Glossop, in memory of Mr Glossop's first wife,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher Alongside the Sinking Pilot Boat St.Olave
The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher alongside the sinking pilot boat St Olave. - View image in PDF
Photo Michael Pett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Sirenia
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...