LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plans get the green light
The Borough of Poole has granted the RNLI planning permission, allowing us to commence build work on our new All-weather Lifeboat Centre. This decision is a monumental one that will save the RNLI millions of pounds, bringing future...
Category: Articles
A Day In the Life Of...
Jon Jones, The Lifeboat's editorial assistant, looks at the work of George Rawlinson, Divisional Inspector {Dl) of lifeboats for the South .
The title 'inspector' had always caused me to form a mental image in...
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The Practice of Smashing a Bottle of Wine Over the Bows, the Naming By a Celebrity, Usually a Lady, the Well-Wishing, the Religious Blessing and the Cheers Are All of Them Deeply Rooted In History.
The practice of smashing a bottle of wine over the bows, the naming by a celebrity, usually a lady, the well-wishing, the religious blessing and the cheers are all of them deeply rooted in history.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A British Fighter Aeroplane
JULY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An airman had baled out from a British fighter aeroplane, but he was picked up by a boat lowered from a steamer. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Stockport Auxiliaries' 9-Ft. Life-Boat
MEMBERS of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries, led by Mr. Wallace L.
Barber, aged 60, of 19 Roxton Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Lancashire, who founded the crew in 1937, have completed a model of a 37-foot...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.32 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from a resident of Egremont that a sailing dinghy had been swamped by the wash from a liner, and that one man was in the water near the...
Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
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Today's Appledore Crew In Action (See Letter Opposite on P25)
Today's Appledore crew in action (see letter opposite on p25) Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
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IRB Launches (2)
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.
on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...
Category: Services
A Beautifully Written Letter from Susan Crook Brought the News That the Children Oj Beach Road Country Primary School Litherland Liverpool Seen Here With Brian Ste
A beautifully written letter from Susan Crook brought the news that the children oj Beach Road Country Primary School, Litherland, Liverpool, seen here with Brian Stevenson, ADOS(NW). had beaten the target they had set themselves to reach by... - View image in PDF
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