LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
GIVE IT A GO: STARGAZING
When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above
Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...
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Lifeboat People
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: January Horace Eric Pengilly, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboat from 1967 to 1968 and then coxswain/mechanic until 1978. He had served as second coxswain from 1963 to 1967 and...
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Here and There
Lord Mayor visits Exmouth In 1970 the 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat City of Birmingham was named at Exmouth. Civic links forged then were renewed on April 11 when, at the invitation of Charles Tate, chairman of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM TOMS, on his retirement, on the closing of the Station, after serving 11J years as Coxswain, and previously 6J years as Second Coxswain of the Looe Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a...
Category: Awards
A French Ship
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—21st Octo- ber, 1939. A message had been received that twenty-six seamen from a French ship which had been sunk by enemy action were on board the Inner Dowsing Lightship. The life-boat was.
launched...
Commemorative plates
Commemorative plate, being held by Alice Wright, chief clerk. North West District office, is one of an edition limited to 250 being sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Manchester's lifeboat appeal to fund a Rother lifeboat to be named... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Over 200 Scouts
Over 200 Scouts, Guides, Cub Scouts and Brownies, members of Penarth Scout and Guide Swim Club, took part in a sponsored swim for the RNLl and raised £610. The monster cheque was presented by Phil Smith (I), Scout district treasurer, to... - View image in PDF
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(Left) Aboard After Her Naming Ceremony
(Left) aboard after her naming ceremony are (I) Mr Charles Hunter, who handed over the lifeboat to the RNLl and named her, and his wife (r of centre group). With them are their son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Miller, their son and... - View image in PDF
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A Lifeboat Queen : 16-Year-Old Jane Wilson Was Crowned By Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough Ladies' Guild Gala In July With Her Are Three of Her Attendants Pat Wilkins
A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 9.20 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, the local doctor reported that a sick man on Rhu, Castlebay, required hospital treatment.The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 9.45 in a moderate to fresh south...