LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Centenary: In the South-East of England
BEDFORDSHIRE.
Hitchin held a Centenary Meeting, which was addressed by Major Sir | Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management.
Bedford held a successful Century Life-boat Day in...
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Rnli News
£50 million modernisation programme The Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, announced a £50 million boat building programme to modernise the lifeboat fleet. Speaking at the Institution's annual general meeting, he said,...
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Swallow
While the Motor Life-boat Joseph Adlam was cruising round H.M.S. Warspite in Blyth Bay during an exercise, on the 18th September, the yacht Swallow, of Blyth, was seen to be in difficulties. A fresh westerly wind was blowing with a choppy...
A Dinghy
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
The Duchess of Kent at Ramsgate and Broadstairs
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of...
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The Oyster Smack Royal Native
TOW FOR OYSTER SMACK AFTER BREAKDOWN Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing flares off North Foreland. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Leading the way
Lifesavers from around the world visited RNLI College in August for 2 weeks of intensive tuition on how to run an effective coastal rescue service.
Representatives from Bangladesh, Cameroon, India, Mauritius, Philippines,...
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Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper
Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a...
Aspirant
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERIAND.—The schooner Aspirant, of Stavanger, ran into the bay, being unable to beat off the shore in a moderate E. gale, a heavy sea and thick weather, on the 22nd March. The Life-boat Robert and Susan, on her transporting...
George Evans
FISHGUAHD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — The Life-boat Appin rendered valuable assistance to the smack George Evans, of Cardigan, on the 18th April. About 3 P.M. a vessel was reported by the Coastguard showing signals of distress, and the Life-boat...