LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Television Appeal
THE direct response to the first B.B.C.
appeal by television on behalf of the Institution brought in a sum of £4,233 lls. 4d. Of this amount £3,496 11s. 8d.
were contributed in response to the ...
Category: Donations
Holidays
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Category: Advertisement
A Dinghy (6)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 8.40 p.m. on loth July, 1967, a message was received that a sailing dinghy fromForth isle appeared to be in difficulties.
The life-boat Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34) was launched at...
Two Army Assault Craft
Portrush, Isle of Man - At 7.25 p.m.
on 9th July, 1966, it was reported that two army assault craft with two people on each craft were drifting off Magilligan point. There was a moderate westerly wind with a corresponding...
None (16)
Life-boat 70-001 - At 6.25 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, three boys were reported stranded on some rocks north of Hartland quay. The 7O-foot life-boat Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) proceeded at 6.30 in a south...
Wilton Branch
Heirloom or jumble? James Rylands (r), a valuer at Sotheby's, appraises a 19th century child's mahogany armchair belonging to Mrs Di Chick (centre). The valuation took place at Wilton branch's annual supper partv held at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lerwick Lifeboat Named
On a blustery day Lerwick's lifeboat community officially welcomed their new Severn class lifeboat, Michael and Jane Vernon, into service. The lifeboat was named on 19 July in honour of Sir Michael Vernon, recently retired Chairman of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Bernard's School Barrow
Up, up and away.' Fund raisers launched 1,000 balloons from Si Bernard's School, Barrow to help buv a lifeboat. It was all part of a national event organised by the Keep Fit Association to raise cash for the RNLI. Terry Downing, hon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (7)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A steamer had been mined ten miles N.E. of Trevose Head, and the Padstow life-boat put out in the early morning to search. Other vessels helped, but nothing was found except a barrage balloon...
An Aeroplane (168)
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...