LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Georges
RED FLARES At 3.15 p.m. on nth Janurary, 1966 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler St. Georges was burning red flares just inside the West Gorton buoy. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick responded at 3.30...
Lifeboat Services
CREW TRAPPED AND INJURED BY PIER SUPPORT Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two...
Category: Services
Lifeboat People
Dewi Rowlands, a launcher at St David's from 1942 and head launcher since 1963, is the third generation of his family to serve this lifeboat station.
When he retired in January, they had, between them, spanned the 97...
Category: Articles
The Lions Club of St.Ives Successfully Completed Its Most Ambitions Project Yet When During 1977 It Raised the Money to Pay for a New D Class Ilb at a Service of De
The Lions Club of St Ives successfully completed its most ambitions project yet when, during 1977. it raised the money to pay for a new D Class ILB. At a service of dedication on Easter Saturday led by The Reverend Di.uglas Freeman. ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED
MARINE VHP RADIO SCANNER 10 channel communications receiver made exclusively for the maritime VHP frequencies. Manual channel selection or autoscan Volume & Squelch controls, built in speaker, earphone, nicact battery Quartz crystal...
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Lifeboat People
Island Visit Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the RNLI, was a guest of Brigadier S. P. Robertson of the Committee of Management, at his home on the island of Orkney for four days in August. He arrived aboard Kirkwall'...
Category: Articles
The Lobster Motor Fishing Boat St. Mary’s
MAY 19TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
At midnight on the 18th the life-boat honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Stornoway coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties, with her engine broken down....
St. Lucia, of Lowestoft
At 11.20 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the trawler St. Lucia of Lowestoft 105 miles north-east of the Tyne and that a helicopter would lift him off at 5...
Righting Trials of the First 37' Oakley Lifeboat to Be Fitted With Radar
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
We are happy to announce that the following lifeboat people were awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee medals: Major General Ralph H. Farrant, CB, Chairman, RNLI, L. A. Austin, chief personnel officer, RNLI, A. W. Neal, deputy secretary...
Category: Articles