LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFEBOAT AREA No.10 Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on...

Honorary Life-Governor.

DR. R. JULYAN GEORGE, M.D., has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given at Port Isaac, Brixham, and Paignton during his fifty...

On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.

gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...

Launches 22. Lives rescued 18.

AUGUST 5TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.

At 4.15 A.M. the naval officer in command at Appledore said that the life-boat was wanted four miles W.N.W. from Hartland Point, and the...

On Easter Monday 2000, a rather special piece of RNLI history was recreated with grateful thanks to the organisers of the Streets Ahead launch parade in Manchester. The RNLI in the north west was successful in raising over £5,000 in...

A new era in the history of Poole's lifeboats began on 27 July 1990 when the Mayor of Poole, Councillor Mrs Anne Stribley, unveiled a plaque to mark the opening of the new lifeboat house in a very visible position next to the lifting... - View image in PDF

Election of Eight Honorary Life-Governors.

THE following have been elected Honorary Life-Governors of the Institu- tion in recognition of their long and distinguished services, and have been presented with a copy of the...