LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Lett) Blyth's D Class Inflatable Was Vandalised on 1 August 1989
(Lett) Blyth's D class inflatable was vandalised on 1 August 1989 when the boathouse was entered illegally.
Station mechanic John Scott is pictured in front of the damaged lifeboat holding the knife used to puncture the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr and Mrs Barrie
Mr and Mrs Barrie (2nd I and r) were delighted to receive a Famous Grouse decanter from Mr Sherriff (1), director of Matthew Gloag and Son Ltd, distillers of the whisky. Guests at Mr and Mrs Barrie's Old Mill Hotel, Motherwell, completed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sci Funds An Atlantic
SCI funds an Atlantic Peter Hindley, Chief Executive Officer of Service Corporation International (SCI) recently drew the winning ticket in the company's national raffle in aid of the RNLI.
The raffle along with many... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Channel Islands Welcome:
Channel Islands welcome: ,v/ Peter Port lifeboat crew were presented to Princess Anne bv the chairman of the branch. Guv Blampied (centre), when she visited Guernsey in May.
She is seen here talking to Crew Member Michael... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Raymond Taylor Mbe,
Raymond Taylor MBE, Cullercoats branch president, Raymond first served the Cullercoats crew when he was just 14 and later went on to become second coxswain and senior helmsman of the lifeboat.
Following his retirement at 50...
Category: Obituaries
Panachrandos
OC T . 1 9 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 5.50 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to go out to the Greek steamer Panachrandos A strong N.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a...
A Fishing Vessel
Power cut In winds of force 10-12, heavy squalls and seas of 8-1 Om, the Portpatrick lifeboat Mary Irene Millar launched to a fishing vessel with electrical failure. It was 12.55am on 8 January. Over two hours later, the lifeboat found the...
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In the summer 2002 issue of the Lifeboat magazine, we included a write-up of the rescue of a sea angler who was swept into stormy seas on 2 February 2002 at Porthcawl in Wales.
To make the rescue, Helmsman Nicholas Beale...
A Fshing Boat
FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A fishing boat was overdue, but at the first search the life-boat could find nothing, and when she put out again she found the boat bottom up on the shore.
The only man on board her...
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
Category: Articles