LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thrills, Spills and Women Drivers
Nearly 50 women drivers proved they were just as good as the boys when they competed in a off-road driving day in May that raised £4,000 for the lifeboats. The challenging event.
organised by RNLI North West office and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Self Service:
Twenty-five years' service: Commander Bruce Cairns, RD, RNR, retired as chief of operations at the end of 1986. He joined the lifeboat service as a district inspector of lifeboats in 1961 and served in the Irish, South East and Southern... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 30TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
At 3.45 P.M. a message was received from the resident naval officer at Appledore, that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea between the Bar and Haire Point off Saunton Sands, and the motor...
El Stente
YACHT ON ROCKS Selsey, Sussex. At 3.22 p.m. on 8th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht was on Bognor Rocks and that further information would be coming from the Bognor Yacht Club. The lifeboat crew were assembled. At 3.35 the...
Naming Ceremonies
SEVEN new life-boats were named dur- ing 1953. Four of these boats are stationed on the English coast, at Bridlington, Ilfracombe, Flamborough and Peel; two are in Scotland, at Campbeltown and St. Abbs; and one is in Wales, at Pwllheli. An...
Category: Inaugurations
Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
An Aeroplane (10)
APRIL 12TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in Carmarthen Bay, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 4s. 6d..
Going Aboard Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse Ii In Millbay Docks the Duke of Kent Met Captain T G Hornsby (Left) Chairman Plymouth Branch Ray Sainsbury H
Going aboard Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II in Millbay Docks, the Duke of Kent met Captain T. G.
Hornsby (left), chairman Plymouth branch, Ray Sainsbury, honorary secretary, and Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
84 - and Still Working for the Life-Boats.
The Institution has received cheques from two ladies wlao are now both 84 years old, but still coatiau* to collect for it. One cheque comes from Mrs. L. M. Smith, of Gedling, the honorary organiser for a district of the Nottingham branch,...
Category: Articles
Plaque to Bridlington Bowman
A PLAQUE in memory of Robert Redhead, a former bowman of the Bridlington life-boat, has been placed in the boathouse. Robert Redhead lost his life when the Bridlington life-boat capsized off Flamborough on the 19th of August, 1952. The...
Category: Articles