LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oldest Collector?
The oldest collector? Mr Frank Gay, aged 102, is a keen supporter of the RNLI and has been collecting at his block of flats in Liss, Hampshire for the past 12 years. A master baker, he was still baking and icing cakes for friends and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Four years ago two Buckie golf clubs, Buckpool and Strathlene, combined to run an annual open golf men's tournament in aid of the RNLI. It is held in alternate years at each club. In 1975 a tournament for ladies was started to be played...
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (124)
AUGUST 20TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea in flames six miles N.W. of Cromer, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 10s. 6d..
Cash from College
Since its opening in 2004, The Lifeboat College has become firmly established as the home of RNLI training. Crew and lifeguard training is the College’s most important purpose, but it has also been doing a fi ne job fundraising. Last year...
Category: Articles
A Sailboard
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
Classifieds
RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8.00* The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities I I Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor lifeboat...
Category: Advertisement
Rescue of Five Boys and a Girl
MR. MICHAEL WILSON, a second officer on leave from the Merchant Navy, who went out as a member of the Tenby life-boat crew, has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of five boys and a girl on 27th...
Category: Services
A Sailboard (1)
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
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At ii p.m. on ist August, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretarythat a critically ill patient needed urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 11.59 and...
Fundraising
A light in the darkness As announced in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, the RNLI ran an advertisement on selected cable and satellite TV channels during April.
Filmed as if from the perspective of a casualty...
Category: Articles