LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were informed that a dinghy with four youths on board was in difficulties 100 yards off shore from...
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TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 2.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the local district nurse requested the use of the life-boat to take an injured child to Rossaveel. No other boat being available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...
A Motor Boat
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 11.15 p.m.
on 23rd October, 1966, information was received that a small motor boat last seen two miles east of Port Ellen during the afternoon had not yet returned to her moorings. At 11.35 the...
Fat-Free Cheque
Fat-free cheque The Exmouth branch received a cash boost of £2,000 from the nationwide slimming club organisation 'Slimmer'.
The organisation's central administration office is in Exmouth and when funds... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flood alert
Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
Category: Articles
A Dutch Trawler
Injured seaman brought ashore by Scarborough D class Scarborough's D class inflatable was called on to land an injured seaman from a Dutch trawler on 10 August 1988.
Although winds were only light a thick fog reduced...
Past Times (1)
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...
LOCAL HEROES RAISE £3,500
Every child has their heroes. For James ‘Suds’ Sutherland they were footballers and lifeboat crew. So when ‘Suds’, a lifelong Celtic supporter with strong family links to the RNLI, died of a brain tumour in 2015, his friends found the...
Category: Articles
M a Bigland (Preparations) Ltd
[Reliable oteable Logistical jnvaluable TALUS-MB-C and TALUS-MB-764 were designed and manufactured to meet the exacting requirements of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
They are built and specially treated to...
Category: Advertisement
Rnli Depot at Poole
THE MOVE of the depot from Boreham Wood to Poole was completed on October 1, 1976. Last to come was the machinery; within a fortnight of removal day it was in full operation on the new site.
The RNLI's first storeyard...
Category: Articles