LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Geddes Chairman of Peterhead Branch
Overbearing presence? Ed MacFarland (I), general manager of Marathon Oil operations office in Aberdeen presents a cheque for $10,000 to John Geddes, chairman of Peterhead branch, in the company of a reasonably benevolent looking witness. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boat Shows Are a Very Productive Source
Boat Shows are a very productive source of new members - a dedicated desk and roving sellers bring in members by the hundred - after which they usually end up on the Insignia sales counter! This is the scene at the 1995 London International... - View image in PDF
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Young Enterprise:
Young enterprise: Catherine Eaton, Tanya Hears and Xena Heare organised a sale of toys and raised £77.43 towards the new boathou.se at Happisburgh. Mr & Mrs Debbage and Mr & Mrs Melcalfe held a jumble sale, the proceeds of £... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inverness Sub-Aqua Club
Inverness Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel in the River Ness, starting from the Infirmary bridge and ending up at Friar's bridge. Clem Watson, area organiser for north Scotland, is pictured (centre) in the river just before... - View image in PDF
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Stranded off Skerries Skerries Atlantic 75 Rockabill was launched at 9.44pm on 5 November 2005 to the aid of 13 Latvian winkle pickers who were stranded on Colt Island off Skerries, Co. Dublin, when the boat due to collect them suffered...
A Gold and Two Bronze!
A Gold and two Bronze! The press photocall for the 1999 Presentation was held the day before at Chelsea Flower Show, where the Gateshead Council/RNLI stand had just been awarded a Gold Medal. Bronze Medallists Dan O'Dwyer Heft) and Tom... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal for Whitby Life-Boatman
The King has awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to John Robert Harland, of the Whitby life-boat crew, for diving overboard to the rescue of a fisherman in a heavy sea. As announced in the last issue, the Institution...
Category: Articles
Trained and ready
Volunteers in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, are running a trial RNLI lifeboat station following the closure of the independent lifeboat service in the town. The crew took part in full RNLI training before the lifeboat went operational in the...
Category: Articles
Lewis, of Campbeltown
On the 7th December the smack Lewis, of Campbeltown, went ashore off the entrance of Irvine Harbour, the wind blowing a gale from the westward at the time. The life-boat of the Institution sta- tioned there quickly put off to the aid of the...
Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...