LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Bandsmen dig deep Three members of the Royal Artillery Band dug deep to pull the winning tickets for the 55th National Lottery from the drum on Thursday 31 October 1991.
The band, which was appearing at the Pavilion Theatre...
Category: Articles
News and Views
SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
Category: Articles
Above L-R: Coxswain Ronnie Mackillop and Third Mechanic Peter Mackinnon
Above L-R: Coxswain Ronnie MacKillop and Third Mechanic Peter MacKinnon. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
Category: Articles
Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...
George and Ann, of Cardigan
A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...
Tor Spray
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About •8.45 in the evening, on the 16th of August, 1950, the Southcnd Coast- guard telephoned that a small vessel had been reported oil a reef at Arran- man's Barrels Buoy, Macharioch. At 9.13 the life-boat...
Past and Present
25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...
Category: Articles
News and Views
A Big Thank You from the Anniversary Project Manager So that's it. 1999 has come and gone and the 175th anniversary is now officially over. Only the Scots carried on with the celebrations right up to the official birthday of 4 March 2000...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...
Category: Services