LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir Ronald Radford
SEPTEMBER 1995 Sir Ronald Radford KCB MBE, a life vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Ronald was elected to the committee of management in 1977 and was appointed a vice-president in 1986 and a life vice-president in 1991. He was also chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Thats My Girl
Pictured above is Coxswain Malcolm Gray of St Davids lifeboat with his youngest crew member/daughter, Gillian, following the rescue of a fishing vessel last May.
There are a number of crews who consist of more than one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Poop deck ftxky, a nine-year-old Labrador cross, was swept out to sea after racing into ftesea ro chase seagulls at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Haifa mfe from shore. Rocky soon tired of doing doggy-paddle and was relieved to...
Abandoned ship
Five French fishermen took to their liferaft in the early hours of Tuesday 8 March when their 17m trawler Cap Lizard ran aground half a mile from Alderney. The island’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker...
Category: Articles
Correction
In the last edition of the Lifeboat in a news item titled Honours for RNLI people, we incorrectly stated that Bob Bulgin BEM had been involved with Port Isaac Lifeboat Station for 6 years.
It should have read 16 years – of...
Category: Articles
HSL
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Category: Advertisement
A Flying-Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—2nd January, 1939. A flying-boat had been reported down and in distress, but later it was learned that she was safely at anchor, and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.—Rewards, £16 5s. 6d..
A Small Sailing Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—31st August, 1939. A small sailing yacht with two men on board had broken adrift and was being carried out to sea in a dense fog, but when the motor life-boat found her she was safely at anchor and did not need...
A Steamer (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 6th September, 1939. Information had been received that a steamer appeared to have blown up seven miles off Shoreham Harbour, but although the lifeboat made a wide search she found nothing.—Rewards, £7...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 2nd December, 1937. A trawler reported that she had investigated distress signals off Kinnaird Head without finding anything, and a further search by the life-boat was also without result.—Rewards, £16...