LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Luck of the draw The 45th lottery draw took place on Sunday 30 April at RNLI Headquarters and was attended by a coach party of voluntary workers from the Dudley Branch.
Mrs Felicity Irwin, Public Affairs Executive for TVS,...
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Feature: a Day to Remember
It was a memorable moment on a truly proud day for the Institution that saw Her Majesty The Queen, the RNLI's patron, declare the College officially open. Volunteers, supporters, staff and locals turned out in their hundreds to get a...
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Naming the New Hoylake Life-Boat Oldham IV
(See page 458). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert Morris
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched at 3 A.M.
on the 31st December, during an easterly gale, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the northward of Deal. The Life-boat was success- fully launched in a very...
The Last Rigid Inshore Lifeboat In RNLI Service Was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, Pictured In Action Inside Poole Harbour
The last rigid inshore lifeboat in RNLI service was the Boston Whaler A513 Sam and Iris Coles, pictured in action inside Poole Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maverick
Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...
International Boat Show By Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
Earls Court, London, January 6 to 16 A SHOP WINDOW FOR THE WORK OF THE RNLIA YEAR OF NATIONAL CELEBRATION for the 25 years of Her Majesty The Queen's reign began for lifeboat supporters in January at the 1977 International Boat Show in...
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Mrs. M. E. Pecover
Mrs. Mary E. Pecover, an honorary life-governor of the Institution, died on loth February, 1964. She was appointed honorary secretary of the Thame branch in 1925, received the gold badge awarded to honorary workers nine years later, and...
Category: Obituaries
A New Life-Boat Book
A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.
Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....
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