LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Saturday Club
The Saturday Club for deaf and partially hearing children aged 8 to 16, Newport, Isle of Wight, includes many outdoor activities in its programme, and four weeks of special efforts for the RNLI culminated in an exhibition football match... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gpt to the Rescue
Employees of the Poole-based telecommunications company GPT recently donated £300 to the Institution. The money will be used to purchase much needed protective clothing for lifeboatmen.
Brian Woolgar from GPT is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And the Winners Are
Mr David Scott, Volvo dealer development team leader Scotland, clutches the winning ticket for the Scottish grand draw which took place on 6 November 1996. Mrs Heather Dixon of Lochgilphead scooped the first prize - a brand new Volvo car.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Amazon, of Gothenburg
On the 17th Sept. the Life-boat Van Kook res- cued 5 men, who, having been engaged in saving wreckage from the Amazon, of Gothenburg, lost on the Goodwin Sands on the previous day, were placed in a position of extreme peril by the increase...
The Abertay Light-vessel
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the night of the 20th January the life-boat stood by Abertay light-vessel.— Rewards, £13 Is.
(A full account of this service and of the rescue of the light-vessel's crew by the life-boat...
The Ramsey Island Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
The Keel Boat Prosperity
MAY 7TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.15 A.M. the coastguard reported that a keel boat three miles off was showing a distress signal. She was the Prosperity, of Whitby, with a crew of five. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Reported to the September Meeting.
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...
Category: Services
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
The Southern Africa
THE second of three life-boats which are a gift to the British Life-boat Service from the people of Southern Africa, was stationed at Dover in 1949. The first, named the Field- Marshal and Mrs. Smuts, went to Beaumaris, Anglesey, in 1945....
Category: Articles