LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY IN TOW Moclfre, Anglesey. At 11.50 on the morning of the 17th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat was in distress three and a half miles south-south-east of the life-boat station,...
During Hyde Branch
How well do you know your onions? During Hyde branch's Christmas fair held at the town hall one of the attractions was to 'guess the weight of the onions'. Home-made cakes and preserves, crafts, plants, good-as-new items and RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barry Bennett Has Been Coxswain of St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly Lifeboat Since 1991.
Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.
Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hundred Years Ago
ON January 5th, 1847, Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., the founder of the Life-boat Service, died in the Isle of Man at the age of seventy-eight. He was not only the founder of the service, but one of the greatest of its life-boatmen,...
Category: Articles
Lifesaving savings (1)
Open a savings account with Furness Building Society and support the RNLI.
Furness Building Society has launched an affinity account with the RNLI under a ‘You save – we give’ banner. The society will make a cash payment...
Category: Articles
Drifter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past four in the afternoon of. the 18th of May, 1949, a resident of Leigh reported that a yacht had capsized about two miles off Leigh and that a man was clinging to her. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
Tiger Fish
NET CAUSED TROUBLE At i.20 a.m. on nth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare seen in Portballantrae bay was being investigated. It was one hour before low water with a gentle southwesterly breeze. Twenty...
Ginette, of Audierne
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 10.45 a-mon 18th March, 1967, a French fishing vessel was reported to be in difficulties half a mile north west of St. Ives Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 11...
Sultan
At 6.22 p.m. on 2yth August, 1966, a report was received that a vessel off the Happy Days Holiday Camp, Towyn, had fired a distress signal. At 6.36 the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a east south...
Sualidaz
First rescue by FAB 3 prototype while on trials The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 (see page 90 of this issue) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth, where she was based for some days for...