LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Cave campers swamped Six cave campers at Tenby were taken by surprise in the early hours of 5 August, when the tide came in and washed their possessions away. They retreated further into the cave, but soon found themselves in deep water....
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
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
Journey's end: a team of eight runners, with a back-up team of four,
Journey's end: A team of eight runners, with a back-up team of four, all from 414 Tank Transporter Unit of the Royal Corps of Transport stationed near Salisbury, completed a marathon run along the Welsh coast from Cardiff to Flint in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
Category: Articles
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FRASERURGH, SCOTLAND. A life-boat station has been established at Frazerburgh by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in conjunction with the Harbour Commissioners of that port. The life-boat is on the Institution's plan, designed by Mr....
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services June and July 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 8, July 5, 14. 15 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15, 17, 20 (twice) and 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 27,29, 30, July 4,6.
14 (twice) and 21 Aith,...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
FOLLOWING the birth of a son to Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales a letter of congratulations and good wishes was sent to Buckingham Palace by Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, the director, on behalf of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
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