LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Thank you, Kinghorn I am writing to express my thanks to the Kinghorn D class inflatable lifeboat crew and the RNLI who over the years have made it possible for me to sail my sailboard off Kinghorn secure in the knowledge that if I do have a...
Category: Correspondence
Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 237 International Boat Show 239 T T - I VT TTT It was a Dark and Stormy Night ... by Jilly Cooper 240 Number 450 Lifeboat Stamps 242 A Year of Endeavour 243 48 Hours of Gale 248 Chairman: Lifeboat...
Category: Contents
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Our Man In Towcester
Our man in Towcester Despite suffering a stroke some 10 years ago, wheelchair bound Colin Baldry remains as the RNLI's 'man in Towcester'. Colin, pictured here with Mrs Dora Gamble on Towcester flag day last year, does not get... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (28)
AUGUST 13TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A vessel had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but the life-boat was not needed.- Rewards, £3 18s..
Listings
Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of March-June 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May 5,12 ON-1262(17-33):Jun 13 D-536:Apr 20,May 7(x2),Jun 13 ABERDOVEY B-758:Apr 21,May 1,Jun 10,11(x2),13 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr 13,20,27,28, May...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (24)
JUNE 13TH. - NEWQUAY CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled, as the men had been saved. - Rewards, £11 17s. 6d..
Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1860
FROM THE 1st JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1860.—Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and II. to SAMUEL DUNN, in acknowledgment of his intrepid and prompt services in rescuing, at...
Category: Articles
Youngsters 'Bop the Night Away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball
Youngsters 'bop the night away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball. Photo Paul Reid. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs