LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Father of forecast
Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...
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Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman Rnli Accepts Cheque for £30000 to Provide An Atlantic 21 and Boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins Chairman
Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman, RNLI, accepts cheque for £30,000 to provide an Atlantic 21 and boathouse for Abersochfrom Malcolm Timmins, chairman, Wolverhampton branch. Looking on: (I. to r.) Councillor Ted Mitchell, appeal... - View image in PDF
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Gay Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 2.30 a.m. on 3oth March, 1967, news was received that the fishing boat Gay Star with a crew of two was in difficulties two miles west of Bardsey Island. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley launched...
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (R) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson Tow Water Bowser Past Spot Where Road to Spurn Point Was Breached Piles Now
Humber: Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers (r.) and Crew Member Sydney Rollinson tow water bowser past spot where road to Spurn Point was breached. Piles now standing some 10 to 12 feet proud of sand were previously almost... - View image in PDF
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IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
Rescue By Two Boys
A seventeen-year-old boy, Andrew Richards of Dolgellau, and his companion, sixteen-year-old Mark Heywood of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...
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Community spirit The residents of the tranquil island of Alderney in the Channel Islands are reknowned for being laid back, but with three lives in danger, the community sprang into actionA 13-year-old girl was knocked off her feet and swept...
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma Prototype of the Rnli Medina Class Lifeboat Visited the Liner SS Canberra In Southampton Docks Last July Taking Out Commodore F B Woolley Deputy Captain I
(Above) Mountbatten of Burma, prototype of the RNLI Medina class lifeboat, visited the liner ss Canberra in Southampton Docks last July, taking out Commodore F. B.
Woolley, Deputy Captain Ian Gibb and other P and O... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...
Category: Services
Kay's Great Day
Storm Force member Kay Metcalfe with the medallists aboard the Arun class lifeboat Duke ofAtholl'in London before the presentation of Awards Ceremony on 22 May 1990.
From left to right: Helmsman David Steenvoorden,... - View image in PDF
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