LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
RESCUED BY HELICOPTER At 7.4 pon. on I2th July, 1964, a local pleasure boat proprietor told the honorary secretary that a hirer of one of his boats was missing and that the help of the lifeboat was needed to find him. The tide had been...
Greek Award to Selsey
THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Awards
A Small Motor Fishing Boat
On the 1st July two men went fishing in a small motor boat, but got into difficulties, and at 9.38 P.M. the Coastguard received information from a civilian—to whom they had previously arranged to signal if necessary—that the boat was in dis-...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Here and There
FOLLOWING THE RESCUE OH August 12 of a student who had fallen over cliffs at Petit Tor, Torbay ambulance divisional commander, John Bourne, told Torbay honorary secretary, Captain Barry Anderson, how impressed he was with the way the ILB...
Category: Articles
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
Category: Articles
An Inflatable and a Canoe
Sixteen minutes: five children rescued 1436: SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1986: honorary secretary of Rye Harbour lifeboat station, while working in the boathouse hears Camber Coastguard on radio to Dover Coastguard requesting immediate launch of Rye'...
News from the Branches
Gateshead.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...
Category: Branches
Imperial
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 14th of May. 1956, the master of the S.S. Earl Tkorpin re- ported to the honorary secretary that a Mayday distress signal had been broadcast by Wick radio station. The Kirkwall coastguard...
The RNLI's Fleet of Inshore Lifeboats Do Sterling Service 365 Days a Year
The RNLI's Fleet Of Inshore Lifeboats Do Sterling Service 365 Days A Yea. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs