LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Lottery
Summer winners Thank you to all of you who supported the RNLI summer 2005 Lifeboat Lottery, which raised over £470,000.
The first prize, an 18-day Mediterranean cruise, was won by Mr Head from Middlesex....
Category: Articles
Frisky,
Salcombe, Devon. At 5.45 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a party of women were stranded near the Pig's Nose. They had landed by dinghy from their motor boat Frisky, which had...
A Dinghy
Trapped under pier FOUR FISHERMEN in a 14ft dinghy, trapped among the girders under the central pier and being battered by the waves, were reported to the honorary secretary of Morecambe ILB station by HM Coastguard at 1458 on Sunday June 11...
Membership
embership Essential Information for readers The Lifeboat is the members' magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and is published in January, April, July and October. The Lifeboat celebrates the core work of the RNLI - saving...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat Olive
On the afternoon of the 8th September a message was received from the coast- guard, through the wireless station, that a motor fishing boat was aground just south of St. Mary's Island, which is about three miles north of Culler- coats. A...
(Right) John Mcpherson and Nicola Coudge at Work In the Design Studio
(Right) John McPherson and Nicola Coudge at work in the design studio.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vestvard
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian motor vessel Vestvard, of Oslo, ran on the sands, about two miles and a half from the East Goodwin light- vessel, during a thick fog early on the morning of the 18th February. The wind was very light, from the...
Map Showing Air Stations Engaged In Search and Rescue Work
This map is reproduced by courtesy of the Air Ministry..
Category: Charts
Four Fishing Yawls
telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...