LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barrow May 16 1987
British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNF1) marine terminal provided an ideal location for the naming ceremony of Barrow's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, on a cool sunny day in May.
The new lifeboat James Bibby—dressed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
North Again...
In this issue he reaches the most westerly station in England and shapes a course back up the coast to the north..Since dropping anchor in Fowey and rushing back for the ILF conference and the 175th celebrations in Poole so much has happened...
Category: Articles
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Shore, lifeboat and helicopter crews save anglerA huge wave threw an angler off rocks into the sea near Padstow, Cornwall. Luckily, two boys saw the incident and ran to get help and the Padstow lifeboat crew were soon paged. They jumped in...
From angling to sinking
When a group of four adults and a child discovered their speedboat was taking on water in choppy seas off Cork's Wild Atlantic Way, they desperately needed a lifeboat crew's...
Category: Articles
64 YEARS WITH THE QUEEN
Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, believed that sea rescue was ‘a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage ... and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.’ So began our... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
NORTH OF ENGLAND AND ISLE OF MAN Community News
Words: Anna Burn. Photos: English Martyrs School/Steve Hope, RNLI/(Tom Collins, Dave Kneen, Nigel Millard), Rossall School, Chris Smith, Sophie Whitehouse
Welcome to your community news for the north of England and the...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats Named
THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...
Category: Inaugurations
Profile
at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.
on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories Wick Lifeboat by Ian Cassells published by Cluny Publishers at £3.50 Subtitled '150 Years of Tireless Service' this A5-size softback is a full and informative history of the saving of life at sea in...
Category: Articles
Aztec
A run saves fishing vessel in storm force windsAservice last September by Thurso's Arun class lifeboat in very heavy weather and with only one engine fully operational has earned her coxswain, Second Coxswain William Munroe,...