LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Group Captain Wedge Is Pictured Preparing to Name the Lifeboat. Looking On, from Left to Right Are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.
Group Captain Wedge is pictured preparing to name the lifeboat. Looking on, from left to right are: Barry Cartwright, William Wilson, Philip Gordon and Mark Poland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of the Branches
LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
Category: Branches
The Fund Raisers
Taking the plunge Thirty-six volunteers made their first parachute jump from 2,000 feet at the Al Skydiving Centre, Newnham in June and three weeks later Jim Marriott, landlord of the Ship Inn and organiser of the jump handed a cheque for...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By VIOLET GLOAG (12J) Ann Street School, Dundee.
What are the Qualities which make a Good Life-boatman ? ONE of the most essential noble qualities that make a good life-boatman is that of bravery. His is not the bravery...
Category: Articles
Hull Trawler "Finmark" Ashore on Kettleness Point
The Ronswick (Yorkshire) Life-boat was unable to get to the wreck and was driven ashore, 8th February, 1926.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fictional Ennui's Point Coxswain Jack Tustin
Fictional Ennui's Point coxswain. Jack Tustin played by Philip Madoc (I), and factual Mumbles coxswain, Derek Scott, together 'aboard' the mock-up stern cabin on display at Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI ACCOUNTS for 1984 have yet to be completed, but they are likely to show that during the year at least £21 million has been raised. This figure reflects not only the tremendous efforts of the branches and guilds but also the...
Category: Articles
Swamped By Waves,
Swamped by waves, the boat goes under Mr Steward and friend Mr A tkinson manage to cling to the ferry, but Mrs Steward is swept under. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Work Boat Gille Brighde
Crew rescue man trapped in capsized fishing vessel James McPhee, the coxswain of Campbeltown lifeboat, has been awarded the Thanks of the RNLI inscribed on Vellum following a service to the work boat Gille Brighde, when she capsized on 29...
Oil As a Wave Smoother
The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
Category: Articles