LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A 'Landmarc' Campaign
Pictured at Okehampton Army Camp in the relief D class lifeboat Helen Olive Palmer are: Clovelly Crew Member Adam Campbell-Carnett, Landmarc Commercial Director Steve Utley, Regional Operations Manager for ATE South West Graham Lofts,... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
Two airmen had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless when it was learned that it was two balloons that had come down and they had been mistaken for...
A Lightship
JUNE 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. The life-boat landed three British soldiers from a lightship.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk,” page 80..
The R.A.F.'s Thanks.
At the end t September the Institution received another letter from the Air Council thanking it for the help which it had given in air-sea rescue work. That help, the Council sai.i had been 'of the greatest value to the Royal Air...
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To Another Naval Trawler
Coxswain Duncan Newlands, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has also won the vellum for rescuing the crew of a naval trawler which had gone on the rocks on the Isle of Arran. He rescued them in a gale on a very cold night, with snow falling and a...
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A Great Life-Boat Worker
By the death on September iyth. of Mrs. Edith Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Institution has lost one of the most devoted and successful honorary workers whom it has ever had. The Life-boat...
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Appeal updates
After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.
The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...
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Your vote counted!
Crew members at eight lifeboat stations are getting new lifesaving kit thanks to RNLI supporters who took part in the Vote that Counts. Organised by the People’s Postcode Lottery charity, the competition gave supporters a chance to cast...
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Saint Kentigern
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...
O. A. Brodin
MARCH 11TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 6.10 A.M. a message was receivedfrom the coastguard that the Swedish steamer O. A. Brodin, of Stockholm, had gone ashore north of St. Bees. There was dense fog, with a smooth sea. At...