LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Support of the Nottingham Lifeboat Appeal the 37Ft Oakley Relief Lifeboat J G Graves
In support of the Nottingham lifeboat appeal, the 37ft Oakley relief lifeboat J. G. Graves of Sheffield last summer made a trip up the River Trent and other inland waterways to Nottingham, Newark and Lincoln. Lt Cdr Andrew Forbes, former... - View image in PDF
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Strathearn Glass Ltd
STRATHEARN GLASS have created the above engraved block paperweight, designed and engraved by their Staff Engraver, Alasdair C. Gordon D.A. (Edin.), to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the R.N.L.I.
It is being offered in...
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Xtra Help for Penarth
A newly opened branch of Halifax Estate Agency in Penarth pledged £10 to Penarth lifeboat station for each of the first 25 houses placed with the office on a sole agency.
Manageress Estelle Pemberton is pictured at... - View image in PDF
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Walmer.Kent.—On the 6th of August, 1954, two boys walked round the cliff from St. Margaret's to Kingsdown, but were trapped by the tide at Kingsdown. They both tried to swim round the cliff, but one of them got into difficulties. His...
Life-Boat Wedding
IN 1957 Miss Christine Ford, who was then aged 15, became the youngest honorary secretary of a financial branch. The branch was Portslade in Sussex. Her parents are both enthusiastic supporters of the life-boat service and for many months... - View image in PDF
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Sheringham Lifeboat Crew Member David Williams
SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was... - View image in PDF
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H.M. Trawler Valesca
APRIL 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.25 P.M. the coxswain was told by a private of the 23rd Royal Fusiilers that a vessel about two miles N.E. of Cromer wanted a doctor.
This was confirmed by the coastguards, and at 6.50 P.M....
A Small Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb...
Cover Picture
cover picture: A member of the RnLI’s Rapid Response Unit watches over an evacuee in the summer floods Photo: robin Goodlad. - View image in PDF
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MARCH 18TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. An explosion had been heard at sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £13..