LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
While (Right) There Was a Close Finish for First and Second Place Between No 2 Spanish Dancer (Pat Eddery) and No Ii Mr Lucky (Willie Carson)
. . . while (right) there was a close finish for first and second place between No 2 Spanish Dancer (Pat Eddery), and No II Mr Lucky (Willie Carson).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
R.A.F. Crest for a Life-Boat
THE Royal Air Force has presented a silver and enamel R.A.F. crest to the Lerwick life-boat and it has been fitted in the after-shelter. With it came a message from the officer commanding the No. 18 Group: "The crest is sent in...
Category: Articles
Jewels for a Lifeboat:
Jewels for a lifeboat: A member of Phillips' staff models some of the 17 items of jewellery Mrs Esme Anderson generously gave to the RNLI for auction to pay for a new £390,000 Arun class lifeboat to be stationed at Newhaven and to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
CLIFF FACE
ACHILL ISLAND | 5 JANUARY
Volunteers from Achill Island launched their all-weather lifeboat when two hill walkers got stuck 60m up a steep cliff face near Mweelrea Mountain, Co Mayo. Low visibility prevented the Coast Guard...
Category: Services
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in June were carried out by the following stations: NORTH-EASTERN DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 7 p.m. on 27th June, 1966, a dinghy was reported adrift half a mile to seaward of Skipsea.
The IRB was...
Category: Services
A Dinghy
NARROW SHAVE ON COD ROCKS PEOPLE at Tre-Arddur Bay, Anglesey, on 2nd September, 1971, saw a dinghy capsize about 50 to 100 yards south west of Cod Rocks. Maroons were fired immediately and at 4.50 p.m. the ILB was launched from Forth...
The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission
THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
Category: Articles
Awards Made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See Page 160 of This Issue for a Report of the Annual Meetings
Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...
Category: Awards
A Gift to the Newhaven Station from Brighton
THE Brighton Round Table, some of whose members -went out on an exercise launch in the Newhaven life-boat in the summer of 1951, has presented a clock to the crew to hang in the boat-house..
Category: Donations
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...