LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Harbour Tug
HARBOUR TUG TAKEN IN TOW Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.4 on the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a man waving some clothing from a boat in Cloughey Bay. The life-boat Constance...
New Vice-President
Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, K.B.B., C.B., has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution. He has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1953. In the same year he became a Vice-President of the Scottish Life-boat...
Category: Committee
Albert's Skydive
Last August a dream came true for disabled pensioner Albert Moss when he parachuted from 13,000ft above the Yorkshire coast - boosting lifeboat coffers by £700 in the process.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eddie Dorman
Eddie Dor man member of the Padstow branch committee for 20 years. Eddie was box officer from 1982 to 1996 and he and his wife were awarded the silver statuette in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
Electronic Eyes and Ears Reviewed by Cdr Ken Wollan
Further developments in the Communications and Navigational Aids of a Modern Lifeboat By Cdr KEN WOLLAN QBE RN Staff Officer (Communications) RNLI MY PREDECESSOR, Lieutenant Ernest Gough, wrote an excellent article which appeared in the...
Category: Articles
Change of Address
IMPORTANT.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
Owing to Expiration of Lease the Committee of Management have been compelled to REMOVE the Headquarters of the Institution from 14, John Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.,...
Category: Articles
An American Fortress Aeroplane (4)
DECEMBER 27TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An American Fortress aeroplane had been abandoned by her crew but they came down on the land. The aeroplane flew on until shot down into the sea by a Spitfire aeroplane. - Rewards,...
Crusader
WHITBURN.—On the 22nd November the Thomas Wilson Life-boat brought ashore eight men from the steam-tug Crusader, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Whitburn Rocks during foggy weather. The eight men had gone on board to try to get her...
Cyane
During a whole S.E. gale on the 1st October, signals of distress were made from the yacht Oyane, of Cork, lying at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat T. P. Hearne was very smartly launched and pro- ceeded to the yacht, which they found in a...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...