LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Camilla
SKEGNESS.—The brigantine Camilla, of Laurvig, being seen to take the ground on the Boghead Sands on the evening of the 2ud April, and a few minutes afterwards burn flare-up lights, the Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was launched and proceeded...
Actor Richard Todd (Left) Spins the Drum Before Drawing the Ticket for the Winner of the R.F.D. Inflatable 'sportboat'—The Prize In a Draw Organised By Rfd-Gq Ltd., During the Week of the Bourne
Actor Richard Todd (left) spins the drum before drawing the ticket for the winner of the R.F.D. inflatable 'Sportboat'—the prize in a draw organised by RFD-GQ Ltd., during the week of the Bournemouth boat show, in aid of the R.N.L.I.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
This animated photograph of the Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise was taken by Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, Bridlington, in a westerly gale early in April An Inspector of Life-boats was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valentia Life-Boat
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
Category: Services
Chanakya Jayanti, of Bombay
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8.40 p.m. on 12th December, 1968, the signal station told the honorary secretary that a sick crew member aboard the tanker Chanakya Jayanti of Bombay required medical assistance.
The life-boat...
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Galway Bay - At 10 a.m. on 9th August, 1966, the doctor requested the services of the life-boat to transport a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. At 11.10 the life-boat John R.
Webb, on temporary duty at the...
Rose Valley, of Wick
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.2 p.m. on 2nd May, 1966, it was reported that a small fishing boat was drifting on to rocks at St. John's Point, Mey. Thelife-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 6.30 in a slight south...
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...
Category: Awards
Melvin
Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...
The Re-Opening of Penarth Lifeboat
The re-opening of Penarth lifeboat station and the handing over of the new D class lifeboat took place on the Esplanade on Saturday August 8. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management, first received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs