LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Handsome Pair!
Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.
The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rentokil
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Including, we're pleased to say, many R.N.L.I. stations.
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A Rowing Boat
FOUR EXHAUSTED OARSMEN RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.
on Saturday the 20th of July, 1963, the Port Erin police constable told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in Calf Sound and that he was...
Marigold
On the 1st October the small motor fishing boat Marigold, of Thurso, which had gone out fishing, was overtaken by bad weather and was unable to return to harbour. A watch was kept on her for some time, and at 9 A.M. the Motor Life- boat...
Faithful (1)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. At midday on the 17th November, 1962. the North Sunderland coxswain, in the absence of the honorary secretary, told the coastguard that he felt anxious about the fishing vessel Faithful,...
The Pram Dinghy Turtle
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Abergele police had reported that a small boat had capsized off Llandulas, and that her crew of two were swim- ming towards Abergele....
Exercise With Hovercraft:
Exercise with hovercraft: a shipping disaster occurs in the English Channel large numbers of passengers might have to be rescued and it is likely that a cross channel hovercraft will be directed to the scene to act as a floating casualty... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Ewing
CARDIGAN.—While a strong N.W.
gale was blowing with heavy seas on the evening of the 24th March, the signalman fired the alarm signal indicating a vessel in distress in Cardigan Bay. The Lifeboat Lizzie and Charles Leigh...
(Left) Charles Henry City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade Cruise Through the Fleet Photograph By Courtesy of Samuel Tanner
(Left) Charles Henry, City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade cruise through the fleet. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Samuel Tanner. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Evelina
LTTHAM, LANCASHIRE.—The Charles Biggs Life-boat was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 5th November, in reply to signals of distress shown by the flat Evelina, of Euncorn, bound from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Euncorn with a cargo of railway iron....