LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loud Hailers & Wireless
Other plans for the immediate future are improved caterpillar tractors and carriages for launching, loud-hailers in a hundred life-boats of the larger types, and watertight wireless sets, so that all life-boats, and not only those, as at...
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Salmond visit
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called into Queensferry Lifeboat Station on 22 June. He was shown around the station, introduced to the crew and presented with a framed photo of Queensferry’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Donald and Ethel Macrae...
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Flood rescuers in action
As Lifeboat magazine went to print, RNLI Flood Rescue Team members were returning home after going to the aid of those affected by floods in Cumbria. The team, working alongside other emergency services from 6-8 December, helped...
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An Aeroplane (31)
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
Penarth: Marathon Effort
Last year, Penarth trainee Crew Member Simon Marchant completed more than 40 marathons in Wales
over 41 days, raising a fantastic £779 for the RNLI. Simon set off with a goal of running an average of 26.2 miles a day (the...
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Never too early …
Christmas is still a couple of months away, but the Lifeboat would like to remind you of the cards and gifts that are available from the RNLI Sales catalogue and website, and from RNLI shops around the UK and RoI.
The...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. W. DOUGLAS JOHNSTON, O.B.E., J.P., has been elected an HONORARY LIFE- GOVERNOR of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service both as a member of the local committee and as chairman...
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An Aircraft
Peel, Isle of Man.—29th May, 1939.
A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 13s..
A Ship
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 30th * October, 1939. A ship had been reported on fire, but a later message stated that the survivors of a Danish vessel, believed to have been sunk by enemy action, had been picked up by a Finnish vessel.—Permanent...
A Trawler
14th April. A trawler stranded at Sanday, but her crew managed to get ashore in the ship's boat. The life-boat was away for fifteen hours in bad weather and covered about one hundred and twenty miles. Additional rewards were granted for...