LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Press and Life-Boat Work
We would like to express the grateful thanks of the Institution to the following firms of publishers who have generously inserted the leaflet of the Institution in their Christmas issues or have given us a free advertisement in their pages...
Category: Correspondence
The RNLI and me: Nadia Sawalha
WHO IS NADIA SAWALHA?
Actor, writer and two-time marathon runner, Nadia Sawalha has appeared in films including Slave of Dreams and Clockwise, and is a regular face on TV. She is perhaps best known for her roles in soaps such as...
Category: Articles
The Silver Jubilee Naval Review
ON 16th July the King reviewed the fleet at Spithead, as part of the cele- brations of his Silver Jubilee. The motor life-boats from Yarmouth and Bembridge, in the Isle of Wight, were on duty throughout the day, under the command of the...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat and Six Yachts
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no...
The Fundraisers
North West passage Captain Patrick Roberts undertook a sponsored windsurf from Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to Ramsey on the Isle of Man.
The sail started at 1pm in light winds and sunshine, but the wind soon died...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To MATTHEW...
Category: Awards
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS PATTON, on his retirement, alter serving for 27J years as Coxswain of the Portrush Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To MATTHEW GRUNNILL, on his retirement, after serving for 23J...
Category: Awards
Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling
Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
A Yacht and a Sailing Dinghy
LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick...
Ladies of Reigate and Redhill Guild
Sherry and mince pies are a recipe for success, as the ladies of Reigate and Redhill guild proved when they made them the object of a partv held in Reigate Town Hall last November. It look no more than two hours to raise £825 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs