LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sporting Clubs Can Help the R.N.L.I.
THE life-boat service receives each year most valuable support from many sporting clubs. With costs increasing because of technical developments, it is timely to draw attention to the easy way in which clubs not yet helping the service can...
Category: Donations
Olbers
At 6.45 P.M. on the 1st April a telephone message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore at Scotston Head. Coxswain James Cameron of the No. 2 Life - boat Alexander Tulloch started for the scene j of the wreck,...
The New 70-Foot Steel Life-Boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) Picking Up Three People from a Drifting Dinghy Off the Mumbles, Glamorganshire In June, 1966
The new 70-foot steel life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) picking up three people from a drifting dinghy off The Mumbles, Glamorganshire, in June, 1966.
Also visible in the photograph (left) is the bow of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Washington Aircraft (3)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
Argo Delos
On the 22nd of October, 1960, the Portrush life-boat rescued fourteen men from the Greek vessel Argo Delos. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Samuel Cunningham was awarded the silver medal for gallantry,...
The Greenwich Cheese and Wine Evening Held In the Painted
The Greenwich cheese and wine evening, held in the Painted Hall of the Royal Naval College was helped towards its £1,700 profit by a special draw for a gallon of brandy, kindly presented by Martell, which made £250. Here Michael... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Newly Formed Nutley Branch
The newly formed Nutley branch was given a fine start when Mike and Linda Balster of the William IV pub presented a cheque for £427 to Mrs Vera Riley, chairman of the branch, watched by members of the committee and Michael Ashley... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs J. A. Pattullo,
Mrs J. A. Pattullo, former honorary secretary of Edinburgh Ladies' lifeboat guild from 1962 to 1970 and founder of the lifeboat shop.
Mrs Pattullo was awarded a Gold Badge in 1970, having joined the guild's...
Category: Obituaries
A Hundred Years Ago
ON the night of the 19th of October last, in a gale of wind, the small sixoared self-righting life-boat belonging to the National Life-boat Institution at Dungeness proceeded through a heavy sea, managed by eight Coast-guard men, to a wreck...
Category: Articles
Returning from Service
The Dunbar Motor Life-boat on the 26th September, 1932.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs