LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Martell Cognac
When you're saved from the drink.
For those who'll need a pick-me-up, there's a bottle of 3 star cognac on board every RNLI lifeboat. Courtesy of Martell..
Category: Advertisement
Fred Olsen Fund Third Lifeboat
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines present the check for f 76.250-tfrom L to Rt Wendy Hooper-Greenhill.
Fred. Olsen publicity manager: Poppy Bell, passenger; and Howard Bell, passenger and RNLI Eastern region liason... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Atlantic 75
Atlantic 75 Bob Turnbull 'The speed's good for a fast response. - View image in PDF
It's great in the shallows. It's got fantastic towing power.' Phil Mace, Mechanic, Ramsgate. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A determined Kathleen Miller (below)
A determined Kathleen Miller (below) raised £1,300 for Middleton branch when she climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in February. After a briefing and a practice ladder climb, Kathleen embarked on the two hour climb and found it... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (4)
JANUARY 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. A call had been received from a steamer for the port doctor. The weather was severe and the life-boat could not find the steamer. She must have gone on her way. - Rewards, £15 11s. 6d..
A Yacht (6)
AUGUST 27TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
The coastguard had asked for the life-boat to escort a yacht, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16..
D.S.O.
Captain R. L. Harriet, R.N., the depu:y chief inspector of life-boats, who was called up to the Navy at the outbreak of war, has won the D.S.O., "for courage and resource in successful attacks on enemy submarines".
Category: Articles
New lifeboat station to be trialled
A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Steinstad
FEBRUARY 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. Survivors of the S.S. Steinstad, of Oslo, which had been torpedoed on the 16th February, had reached land in one of the ship’s boats, and reported that another boat was missing, but the life-boat’s...
A Yacht
JANUARY 11TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A naval rating finding himself unable to row back to his motor launch had boarded a yacht and shouted for help, but a boat belonging to the launch took him off.- Rewards, £6 19s. 6d.