LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Warwick Aeroplane (1)
NOVEMBER 17TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
A British Warwick aeroplane had made a forced landing on the sea, but while the life-boat was searching she learned, by wireless, that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £20 0s....
Indian Irb Crewman
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
Category: Branches
Civil Service Post Office and British Telecom Fund Half Marathon Which Was Held In Windsor Great Park
Coxswain Vic Marsh of Swanage is seen helping Ertugrul Gomec to navigate after the finish of the Civil Service, Post Office and British Telecom Fund half marathon which was held in Windsor Great Park last June. He was the one paraplegic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Windsurfer untangled In winds of up to force 8, Bridlington's D class lifeboat Lord Feoffees III launched to assist a windsurfer in trouble early in the afternoon of 20 March 2004. After a rough passage, Helmsman Duncan Stewart and Crew...
Polar Prince
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 9.9 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the Black Middens Rocks. At 9.32 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea.
There...
A Canoe
Margate, Kent. At 3.24 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys in a canoe were being blown out to sea by a strong south- south-westerly wind off the Neyland Rocks. There was a...
May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.
The help of the Islay life-boat had been...
Letters
THANKS TO 'WONDERFUL PEOPLE' While on holiday in the Isle of Man in September we visited the Life-boat station at Port Erin. We read the boat's record with great interest, and the members on duty tending the boat were welcoming,...
Category: Correspondence
Some Ways of Raising Money from Page 173
awarded annually, is a decorated lifebelt given to the branch by HMS Stubbington earlier in the year.
A supper, organised by Brough and District ladies' guild, was held at Humber Yawl Club on January 26 with 90 people...
Category: Donations
Winaway of Lowestoft
Caister, Norfolk - At 11.27 a.m. on llth August, 1969, it was learnt that the motor vessel Norwich Belle had sighted a fishing vessel in difficulties near the South Caister shoal buoy.
The life-boat Royal Thames was...