LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (27)
AUGUST 11TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 5.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in Pevensey Bay and asked that the life-boat crew should stand by. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Royal Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank account* that&ave live* at tea For the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) to be able to continue its valiant and valuable work saving lives at sea, it needs to be able to plan ahead when it comes to fundraising. This...
Category: Advertisement
Vellums Awarded to Three Men
AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.
Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....
Category: Awards
Portunus
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Some Ways of Raising Money
During 1975 Dublin branch and ladies' guild achieved the fine result of £24,000. Of this amount £5,874 came from the lifeboat shop run by Mrs Montague Kavanagh and her helpers, and £4,198 was raised in a one-day spring...
Category: Donations
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Jane and Ellen
RUNSWICK.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N.E., with a heavy sea,on the 5th November, the schooner Jane and Ellen, of and for Whitby, from Seaham, with a cargo of coal, lost her sails and became unmanageable. She showed signals of...
36 Years After
The Institution has just received two legacies of £200 each, one for its general funds the other for its Selsey station, left it in gratitude by a Birmingham woman. In August 1908 she was on board the steamer "Queen" of...
Category: Articles
Daring
ABERDOVEY.—The Life-boat Royal Berkshire put off during a gale and rough sea, on the 7th September, and saved'the ketch Daring, of Barnstaple, which had been driven into Cardigan Bay. Her mainsail had been torn to ribbons; she was fast...
What a Lot of Bottle!
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs