LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat (1)
AUG. 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 9.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The weather was fine and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Thomas...
Girls and Boys from Connah's Quay Held a Sponsored Swim and Raised £15432 a Cheque for This Amount Was Presented to Mrs E L Coppack Secretary of the Conn
Girls and boys from Connah's Quay held a sponsored swim and raised £154.32. A cheque for this amount was presented to Mrs E. L. Coppack, secretary of the Connah's Quay branch, at the pool side.
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Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon.—About seven in the evening, on the 31st of August, 1950, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a man in a rowing boat about a mile south of Prawle Point was in difficulties. At 7.15 the life-boat Mil- burn, 011 temporary...
Exercising With a Helicopter from Raf Valley the Mountains of North Wales In the Background
Exercising with a helicopter from RAF Valley, the mountains of North Wales in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.-—At 7.10 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message from the assistant harbour master that a boat needed help off the east pier. The life-boat Dunleanj II put out at 7.45...
A Gold and Two Bronze!
A Gold and two Bronze! The press photocall for the 1999 Presentation was held the day before at Chelsea Flower Show, where the Gateshead Council/RNLI stand had just been awarded a Gold Medal. Bronze Medallists Dan O'Dwyer Heft) and Tom... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (1)
Weymouth, Dorset. At 9.55 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a hired rowing boat with three men on board had not returned to Weymouth pier. The honorary secretary decided not to...
Past and Present
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday and "Life-Boat Sunday." Recent Demonstrations
WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (11)
DEC. 3RD. - MONTROSE, ANGUS. A steamer had been reported sunk by enemy action twenty miles E.S.E. of Scurdyness, but no trace of her could be found - Rewards, £31 11s. 6d..