LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A time to celebrate!
Both crew gallantry and supporter dedication were celebrated at the RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards at London’s Barbican Centre on 27 May. Guest of Honour this year was HRH Prince Michael of...
Category: Articles
Book reviews
Take a voyage into the briny blue from the comfort of your armchair, whether you’re yearning for adventure or looking to brush up on your nautical knowledge
Lighthouses: Beacons of the Sea
by David Ross
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Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
Category: Advertisement
Sadikzade and Carmen
TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor...
Leonard
NOVEMBER 9TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
During the morning the coxswain was informed by the piermaster that the steam trawler Leonard, of Fleetwood, had come alongside the pier with her holds full of water. A strong N.N...
Feature: Lifeboat Lottery
The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery was the highest earning RNLI lottery ever, raising over £381,000 - the equivalent of two inshore lifeboats, a hovercraft and the training of their crews. Congratulations go to first prize winners Mr and...
Category: Articles
Selectivity
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 9.40 on the morning of the llth of Novem- ber. 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Selectiv- ity, on passage from Glasgow to Swansea, had a sick man on board.
After...
Valkyrie II
Margate, Kent. At 6.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Valkyrie II of Fraserburgh was in difficulties fourteen miles east-north- east of North Foreland....
An Aeroplane (71)
MAY 7TH. - EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. the Eyemouth honorary secretary received a message from the Royal Observer Corps post that an aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea about ten miles east of Eyemouth. At St....
An Aeroplane (72)
MAY 7TH. - EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 5.15 P.M. the Eyemouth honorary secretary received a message from the Royal Observer Corps post that an aeroplane had been seen to dive into the sea about ten miles east of Eyemouth. At St....