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Ten Lives and Seven Boats Lost

Date: September 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 17

Ten life-boatmen have lost their lives on service' during the five years.

Seven life-boats have been destroyed or lost, one at Dunkirk, one at its station, three in a building yard and two in the Channel Islands, where...

Category: Articles

A vintage legacy

Date: Autumn 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 613 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2015

Our lifesavers received a remarkable gift in May – two multi-million-pound Ferraris. Northampton businessman and RNLI supporter Richard Colton left his treasured sports cars to the RNLI in his Will, asking that money from their sale be used...

Category: Articles

A Swordfish Aeroplane

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 24TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. A Swordfish aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but two of her crew were saved by a rescue launch, and the third man could not be found. - Rewards, £19 11s. 6d..

An Admiralty Minelayer (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Admiralty minelayer had run aground, but her crew were saved from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, Barmouth, £8 6s. ;...

Motor Life-Boats That Want Names!

Date: February 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 289

Nine for England; six for Scotland; one for Wales; three for Ireland.

The Institution now has 61 Motor Life-boats in its Fleet of 214. Another seven Motor Life-boats are under con- struction, and a further seventeen have...

Category: Articles

Photo

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019 (1)

Seven of the eight crew who were lost. Back row left to right: Daniel Kirkpatrick, Jimmy Johnston, Robert (Sodjer Bob) Johnston, Ray Kirkpatrick and James Swanson. Front row left to right: Robbie Johnston and John (Jack) Kirkpatrick. The... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Prize Winning Essay

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Miss BRIDGET MCHALE, of West Nor- folk and King's Lynn High School for Girls, King's Lynn, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution.

Other...

Category: Articles

Functional Clothing

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

"Airflow" JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world ideal for work or leisure 'Airflow' coat and jackets are wind and water proof outer clothing and...

Category: Advertisement

Contents

Date: Winter 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 515

The LifeboatSpring 1991 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 515 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...

Category: Contents

Royal Connections

Date: Autumn 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 589

RNLI crew members and fundraisers were among the guests at the Buckingham Palace garden party on 14 July. Rhyl Coxswain Peter Robinson (pictured meeting HM The Queen) says: ‘It was an honour for my wife and myself to attend and we thoroughly...

Category: Articles