LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Relief Fleet-D Class Phyl Clare
Mr Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fund raising and marketing, accepts the new relief fleet D class lifeboat Phyl Clare from Mrs Phyl Cleare during the naming and dedication ceremony at the Poole depot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Frank Austin Penlee's Arun class Mabel Alice at speed during an exercise off the Cornish coast. The Tater-Dhu lighthouse is visible in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barry Dock August 8 1987:
BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blooming Marvellous
The first RNLI lifeboat and slipway to be depicted entirely in flowers made its debut at the Chelsea Flower Show at the end of May.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cromer Design Award
Pictured above is the Council's Conservation and Design Manager together with Mrs Blanche Allen, widow of Graham Allen, presenting the award plaque to project architect Steve Bond and the design team.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Norman Canning,
Norman Canning, founder member and former secretary of the Gravesend branch from 1970 until 1992. Norman was awarded the silver badge in 1989 and remained active on the committee until his death..
Category: Obituaries
A Mosquito Aeroplane
JULY 28TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A Mosquito aeroplane had crashed near the shore at Bacton. The life-boat found only wreckage, but two bodies were recovered by the police. - Rewards, £3 18s..
An Aeroplane (3)
FEBRUARY 1ST. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the naval authorities recalled the life-boat. - Rewards, £29 17s..
Your Letters
Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...
Category: Correspondence
An Enemy Submarine
MARCH 20TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE.
About 7.30 in the morning a telephone message was received from Kilchoman coastguard that a vessel was ashore about half a mile north of Coull Point, Islay. A strong north-west wind...