LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John and George
.—The small motor fishing boat John and George, of Lowestoft, was fishing half a mile south- east of the Coastguard lookout on the morning of 7th April when her engine failed and her net fouled the propeller.
A moderate...
Iverna
The Motor Life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.25 P.M.
on the 7th August, on receipt of a telephone message from Overstrand, through the Coastguard, that a small vessel had been disabled off Overstrand with a broken...
Chief Organising Secretary
MR. JOHN TERRY, the district organ- ising secretary for London, has been appointed chief organising secretary of the Institution and personal assis- tant to the secretary, a new post which replaces the post of...
Category: Committee
U.S. Coast Guard Disaster
Five members of the United States Coast Guard lost their lives in an attempted rescue at the mouth of the Columbia River on the 12th of January, 1961, when three life-boats put out to the help of a crab boat. One of the life- boats, a...
Category: Articles
For More Than 40 Years Two Generations of Two Families
For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.
Jochimsen of Photo Process... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carmarthen Boat Club
Members of Carmarthen Boat Club present a £400 cheque to Mrs Gwynne Rees, vice-chairman of Carmarthen and Ferryside ladies' guild, following a sponsored parachute jump by 13 club members. George Jones, who broke a leg in the jump,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meet Clifton Close Harmony
Meet Clifton Close Harmony whose successful fortnight's tour of Torbay last summer netted £1,357 for the RNLI. The octet, made up from Anthony Newman, teacher at Clifton College, and seven pupils, most still recovering from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services 8 Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal winning rescues The annual meetings 2001 18 Chairman Peter Nicholson reports on a year of great achievement plus...
Category: Contents
Doubled Up
Eliza Fraser, Victoria Jones and Ella Neame teamed up on the last day of the Swanage regatta to paint stones collected from the seaside and sell them in aid of the RNLI.
John, Eliza's dad, volunteered to double whatever... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs