LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pirouttie
YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...
Unusual IRB Service
THE Whitstable IRB performed an unusual service on 29th December, 1966 - in fact, no other IRB to date has had a similar service.
The Whitstable report stated: 'A passing taxi driver reported to Whitstable police that a...
Category: Services
AGM date set
The RNLI Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will take place on 17 May at the Barbican in London.
RNLI Governors will be contacted individually and invited to request tickets to both events. All other...
Category: Articles
Lifesaving savings
Open a savings account with Furness Building Society and support the RNLI.
Furness Building Society has launched an affinity account with the RNLI under a ‘You save – we give’ banner. The society will make a cash payment...
Category: Articles
Meet Lifeboat Larry
Meet Lifeboat Larry—or at least one of him. - View image in PDF
Mr Jewers of Winterbourne Down, Bristol, makes rocking horses like this for voting children and to dale has bv selling them made a remarkable £500 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Denrow
Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.10 on the morning of the 19th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Denrow of Shore- ham, which had left Newhaven at 9.52 the morning before to fish to the west- ward of...
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Varina
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...
Christmas Cards Can Be Ordered Now
The Institution will have three Christmas cards for sale this year. One will have a reproduction of Tintoretto's painting Christ on the Sea of Galilee'., one will have a reproduction of a specially commissioned painting by David Cobb...
Category: Advertisement
A Boat
BOAT DRIFTING Amble, Northumberland. At 8.40 p.m. on 8th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with two men on board was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Millie Walton put to sea at nine o'clock...