LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Publican and Prankster Geoff Atkinson
Publican and prankster Geoff Atkinson is not the kind to throw the towel in when it comes to a bet. In fact, the landlord of the Fleece Inn at Holme is more likely to wear one! Geoff s latest stunt to raise money for the RNLI was to wear the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kate Agnes, of St Johns
On the 10th February, the barque Kate Agnes, of St. John's, N.B., came broadside on the beach near Irvine during a strong wind from W.N.W. The same life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and in two trips brought safely ashore the...
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1882.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
He expressed his high appreciation of the honour the Committee had conferred on him in electing him Deputy-Chairman of the...
Category: Committee
An Aeroplane (96)
JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.
In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...
Inlland Rover
Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
The last number of THE LIFE-BOAT gave the news that the Institution's deficit in 1967 was likely to exceed £400,000. This has now been confirmed, and the accounts showed that the final figure was £400,084.
The...
Category: Articles
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APRIL 9TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.30 in the afternoon a report was received through the Abergele police and the Rhyl coastguard that people had seen an airman come down by parachute into the sea off...