LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli News
Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...
Category: Articles
Royal Human Society Award
Anstruther Lifeboat Crew Member Barry Gourlay has received an award from the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a capsized kayaker on 19 September 2010. Barry was out for a Sunday walk with his wife and daughter when he spotted the man...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pitwines
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
Leslie Creasey
ENGRAVED LIFEBOAT GLASSES Old Fashioned Tumbler, Lead Crystal 3J" high 8oz. capacity £4.95 VAT, P. & P. incl.
Wine Goblet 6f high 9oz. capacity £4.49 VAT, P. & P. incl.
Choose from...
Category: Advertisement
A Rubber Dinghy (3)
Rhyl, Flintshire.—9th August. Service to a rubber dinghy. Rewards, £13 7s.
The Institution granted additional awards of £2 each to Second Mechanic George Povah and Bowman J. Alcock.
For a full...
A Rubber Dinghy
MARCH 14TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A rubber dinghy, supposed to have come from a crashed aeroplane, had been reported south of Girvan, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 15s..
A Rubber Boat (1)
JUNE 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rubber boat, with one person on board, had been seen four miles to the north of Foreness, but nothing was found except an empty case and some small pieces of wreckage. - Rewards, £4 19s..
Facts and figures
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2012 is now available, priced £6 (including postage and packaging).
It lists the names, numbers and locations of all RNLI lifeboats and station equipment, after-service...
Category: Articles
The Bull Lightvessel
LIFE-BOAT TAKES SICK MAN OFF LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.45 on the evening of the 23rd February, 1962, the Humber Conservancy Board in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board the Bull lightvessel needed urgent...