LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In For The Long Haul
In for the long haul The yacht Paka’a was returning across the Channel from Cherbourg, on the evening of 27 May 2007, when her auxiliary engine began to fail The weather was appalling – against the 50–60 knot headwinds and torrential rain,...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...
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When Grange Infants' School Invited Hartlepool Crew Members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to Visit Them In July
When Grange Infants' School invited Hartlepool crew members Les Pounder and Ron Latcham to visit them in July it was to present them with a cheque for £712.58. The children had added up this impressive sum for the lifeboats with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Poole Open Days July 22-24
LAST JULY, for the first time in its history and as one of its contributions to Maritime England Year, the Institution opened its head office and depot at Poole to the public. It was an entirely new departure which provided a unique...
Category: Articles
Hounded for Their Money!
While on holiday on the Isle of Wight last summer, Albert the Irish Wolfhound collected nearly £50 for Yarmouth lifeboat.
Owner Mary Knight took him along to the station's open day and not many people were able to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
Category: Articles
Lighthouse Telegraphs and Fog-Signals
THE Schiller disaster served to turn public attention to the question of Fog-signals and Alarms; and some interest was felt in the evidence taken before the BOARD or TRADE Court of Inquiry, apart from that naturally induced by the details of...
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News Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
SIMPLY THE BASTE!
Our superfit supporters raise thousands for the RNLI through running events. And at Christmas they were joined by a new team mate: the animated turkey Captain McStuffing. Our feathered fundraiser
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Peter Jones China
To Celebrate the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday A LIMITED EDITION OF 5000 Magnificent pieces to honour H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday A LIMITED EDITION OF 500 The Queen Mother's Favourite Flou-ers Plate...
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Percy Garon MC GM : Honorary Secretary of Southend-On-Sea Lifeboat Station from 1952-1975
THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .
they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...
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