LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st April to 31st July
1st April to 31st July.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Life-boat day.
District conference. (For special report see page 131.) ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing. Amount...
Category: Branches
"Storm on the Waters"
Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...
Category: Articles
Manuscript Limited
ya/Nati Appeal "TbeLynmouth Lifeboat, ijth January 1899'by £Marl Myers RSMA The Perfect Gift for you and the RNLI The RNLI's Limited Edition Appeal has proved a resounding success, with thousands of pounds already raised...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter from Page 3
branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.
Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...
Category: Articles
More Than 20 Chartered Surveyors and Their Office Colleagues from Blackpool
More than 20 chartered surveyors and their office colleagues from Blackpool chose to raise money for the RNLI and their own benevolent fund by raising themselves a foot above the ground on stilts and completing a half-mile course down the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Kenton
MARCH 8TH and 11TH. - CROMER NORFOLK. While the No. 1 lifeboat. F. Bailey was still waiting to land the men she had rescued from the S.S. Corduff, news came through the coastguard that a ship was ashore four miles S.E. of...
Happy Harry, of Dublin
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK, AND HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At four in the afternoon the Ardmore civic guards reported that a schooner, travelling west under sail, seemed to be on fire aft. A strong south-east wind was blowing,...
A Dinghy
JANUARY 29TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 9.31 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an airman could be seen in a dinghy to the N.N.E. A light wind was then blowing from E.N.E., but it...
Vanadis
GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...
Porta Coeli
WHITSTABLE, October 27, 1987: the station's Atlantic 21 shepherds the yacht Porta Coeli into harbour after she had fired distress flares, drifting near the Spaniard buoy. She had suffered engine failure and her lone occupant had been in...