LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Shoreline Volunteer Enrolment Team Which Had Such a Fine Record at the London International Boat Show In January Was Back at Earls Court In March Hard at Wor
Our Shoreline volunteer enrolment team which had such a fine record at the London International Boat Show in January was back at Earls Court in March hard at work throughout the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Three hundred new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When the Chilterns Branch Held a Fashion Show at Little Kingshill School Buckinghamshire Children Under Seven Painted This Large Picture of a Life-Boat In Action
When the Chilterns branch held a fashion show at Little Kingshill School, Buckinghamshire, children under seven painted this large picture of a life-boat in action with a helicopter overhead and an IRB approaching a vessel in...
Category: Drawings
John Russell
John Russell, with his dog Glen, is pictured after an exhausting day's trialling at the Newhaven and District Lifeboat Society's sheep dog trials in August 1987. John and Glen won the RNLI Trophy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss D Mann
December 1987 Miss D Mann, chairman of the Ampthill and District branch since 1973. She was a founder member of the branch and from 1929 to 1973 was flag day organiser. Miss Mann was awarded a record of thanks in 1953 and a gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
Tribute to Thurso Heroes
The people of Caithness paid tribute to the Thurso lifeboat crew at a civic reception in January in the Pentland hotel, Thurso.
Coxswain Farquhar and his crew were honoured for saving the skipper of the burning chemical... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew of the Helicopter That Rescued the Sole Survivor from the South Goodwin Lightship
The crew of the helicopter that rescued the sole survivor from the South Goodwin lightship Left to right: Captain Curtis E Parkins (awarded an RNLI Silver Medal for Gallantry), Major Paul L Park, Airman First Class Elmer H Vollman and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service
JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A boat of the Air Sea Rescue Service had gone out to the help of an aeroplane which had come down in the sea, had caught fire herself and had been burnt out, but her crew were rescued by the examination...
A Raft (4)
APRIL 9TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A raft had been seen, but an aeroplane reported that there was no life on board, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.- Rewards £4 16s. 6d..
A Steamer (29)
MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...
A Boat
JUNE 5TH. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued fifteen French soldiers from an open boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk,” page 79..