LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Lett) Blyth's D Class Inflatable Was Vandalised on 1 August 1989
(Lett) Blyth's D class inflatable was vandalised on 1 August 1989 when the boathouse was entered illegally.
Station mechanic John Scott is pictured in front of the damaged lifeboat holding the knife used to puncture the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr and Mrs Barrie
Mr and Mrs Barrie (2nd I and r) were delighted to receive a Famous Grouse decanter from Mr Sherriff (1), director of Matthew Gloag and Son Ltd, distillers of the whisky. Guests at Mr and Mrs Barrie's Old Mill Hotel, Motherwell, completed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sci Funds An Atlantic
SCI funds an Atlantic Peter Hindley, Chief Executive Officer of Service Corporation International (SCI) recently drew the winning ticket in the company's national raffle in aid of the RNLI.
The raffle along with many... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Vessel
Power cut In winds of force 10-12, heavy squalls and seas of 8-1 Om, the Portpatrick lifeboat Mary Irene Millar launched to a fishing vessel with electrical failure. It was 12.55am on 8 January. Over two hours later, the lifeboat found the...
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In the summer 2002 issue of the Lifeboat magazine, we included a write-up of the rescue of a sea angler who was swept into stormy seas on 2 February 2002 at Porthcawl in Wales.
To make the rescue, Helmsman Nicholas Beale...
Lean Machines
The new Atlantic lifeboat workshop at the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, was officially opened by RNLI President The Duke of Kent on 16 April. The workshop will see the building and refits of the charity’s...
Category: Articles
Finance In 1943: Income
The Institution's income was £528,725. For the fourth year running it was bigger than ever before. Income exceeded expenditure by £229,600, but as soon as the war is over the money which the Institution is now able to put by...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Flag Days In 1946
IN 1946 flag days were held by 808 of the Institution's branches, and 7,919,000 people contributed. This was over two million more than before the war, but three million fewer than in the record year of 1944. The sum contributed in these...
Category: Donations
Mrs P Hamley-Rowan
Mrs P. Hamley-Rowan, president of East Sheen and Barnes branch since 1982 after serving as honorary secretary from 1939 to 1982. Mrs Hamley-Rowan was awarded a record of thanks in 1951, the gold badge in 1960, a bar to her gold badge in 1971...
Category: Obituaries
Douglass and Favourite
DECEMBER 30TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. Two local fishing boats had not returned, and as there was a bad sea at the harbour mouth with a S.E. wind blowing, the motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 4.15 P. M . She escorted into...