LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Not just boats, you know The cover picture from your winter 2001/02 issue of the Lifeboat showed one of our squadron helicopters, Callsign Rescue 193, operating with a Severn class lifeboat. Inside you incorrectly identified this as an RAF...
Category: Correspondence
Mfv 'southern Scott Stranded on Old Bath's Beach Just to the North East of Peel Harbour Isle of Man In the Early Hours of March 29 Was By Morning Being Driven Further Aground By North West
MFV 'Southern Scott, stranded on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of Peel Harbour, Isle of Man, in the early hours of March 29, was by morning being driven further aground by north west gale force winds and pounded by heavy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First Shefras Fundraising
A NEW BOAT ALL AT SEA OR PLAIN SAILING? Whether you want to buy a new or secondhand craft or refit your own, make Mercantile Credit your first port of call. As we've been financing aH kinds of boats, and equipment for over 50 years our...
Category: Advertisement
July (1)
JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. George Mason of the Cross Keys Hotel, Llandudno, filled his bar counters with daffodils on St. David's Day and asked all those who took one to make a contribution in the life-boat collecting box.
* * * * The girls...
Category: Donations
A mother's tale
A mother grieving for her drowned son is helping the RNLI to raise awareness of water safety
Plamen Petkov had appeared to be like any other visitor to the beach, until he drowned saving the...
Category: Articles
Dispatches
RNLI fundraising offices Scotland RNLI, Unit 3, Ruthvenfield Grove Inveratmond Industrial Estate Perth, PHI 3CL Tel: 01738 642999 Email: [email protected] Eastern RNLI, Magdalen Road, Hadleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7 BAD Tel: 01473 822837...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1951
Persons rescued from shipwreck Kilmore life-boat landed a sick man from the Coningbeg lightvessel.
Fishing coble Premier, of Scarborough. Scarborough life-boat escorted coble.
Fishing boat Isa Simpson, of...
Category: Services
Ceremonies
Barra Island Arun class Ann Lewis Fraser Barra Island lies at the southern tip of the Western Isles, and the community of Castle Bay is the home of the lifeboat and also the terminal for the ferry which, with the daily air flight, is the...
Category: Inaugurations
Book Reviews
Mr. John Fisher has had the interesting idea of assembling in Storms (Adlard Coles, 15/-) accounts of some of the greatest storms in history. They include the great gales of 1703, when 8,000 men and women were reported to have been drowned...
Category: Articles