LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Brilliant Sunshine Dunbar Lifeboat
In brilliant sunshine, Dunbar lifeboat fete, held at the harbour on Saturday July 24, raised more than £6,700—a marvellous result exceeding the 1981 total by about £1,000. The Lifeboat Queen, Margaret-Ann Brunton, accompanied by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli Big Band Concert
DON'T FORGET TO BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR THE BIG BAND CONCERT (in aid of the RNLI) Saturday, March 12th 1977 at 7 p m.
NEW VICTORIA THEATRE WILTON STREET, LONDON SW1 featuring THE BAND OF H,M, ROYAL MARINES THE CHRIS BARBER...
Category: Advertisement
Top RNLI Awards
top RNLi AWARds The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican Centre on 17 May, and Bronze Medals for Gallantry were awarded by HRH The Duke of Kent to Dr Christine Bradshaw (see page 16), Lifeguard Sophie...
Category: Articles
Shake It All About
Sheringham lifeboat guild held their second very successful line dance at the Regal Assembly rooms in Sheringham on 4 April. For the people who don't know what a line dance is we are told by the branch press officer that it is a cross... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.A.F. Aeroplane
JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...
A Trawler
MARCH 18TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
Shortly after seven in the morning the body of a man was found among the rocks near Gourdon. There was a fog, and when it lifted a trawler could be seen.
The...
A Convoy of Ships
AUGUST 8TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A convoy of ships had been attacked from the air and some of them had been sunk. The life-boat. put out with the honorary secretary of the station, a naval surgeon and a policeman on board, but a...
Thanks to Stavros
RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats and Additional Stations
SCARBOROUGH.—The local Life-boat Association at Scarborough having recently joined the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the establishment was at once completely renovated, and a new boat—32 feet long, and rowing 10 oars, which had been...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Hero
OCTOBER 23RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At about 8.20 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Hero was aground north of the South Goodwin Lightvessel.
A...