LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scuba Divers Rescued
In steep breaking surf and Force 7 SSE winds,Salcombe's Tyne class lifeboat The Baltic Exchange II rescues three scuba divers from Hertfordshire overboard from their capsized rigid inflatable diving boat and in danger of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Major General Sir Robert Pigot
Major General Sir Robert Pigot, Bart, CBE, QBE, DL, RM, a vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Robert became president of the Isle of Wight lifeboat board in 1975 and in the same year was elected on to the committee of management. In recognition...
Category: Obituaries
North Sunderland Ladies' Guild
The annual harbour fete of North Stinderland ladies' guild broke all its previous records h raising just over £10,000. As a result of the fete, donations, coffee mornings, bridge drive, a handsome donation from the local Rotarv... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss D Mann
December 1987 Miss D Mann, chairman of the Ampthill and District branch since 1973. She was a founder member of the branch and from 1929 to 1973 was flag day organiser. Miss Mann was awarded a record of thanks in 1953 and a gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
The Love(Life)Boat
On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ruby Wilson,
Mrs Ruby Wilson, honorary secretary of the Llangefni guild. Mrs Wilson joined the guild in 1969 and was souvenir secretary for some 10 years until her appointment as honorary secretary in1994. Mrs Wilson was awarded a Statuette in 1992..<...
Category: Obituaries
(Far Left) the 'Picking' Is Under Way As Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay
(Far left) The 'picking' is under way as Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay check their baskets. A simple system checks the goods against both the order form and the delivery note. So mistakes can't happen, can they?. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Divers Out of Their Depth...
'Fifty-three miles over two and a half days couldn't be that difficult - then we saw the OS map! Why are all these brown lines so close together?' - Jem Gotch and members of Second City Diving Club well above sea level..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tank Testing
Tank testing one of the possible permutations of hull, propeller tunnel and keel configurations. Once adequate data is recorded and correlated against fullsize behaviour the effect of changes to most parameters can be predicted with... - View image in PDF
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Robert 'Bobby' Brunton
May 1997 Robert 'Bobby' Brunton DSM, former Tynemouth lifeboat coxswain. Robert joined the Tynemouth lifeboat in 1948 progressing from signaller to second coxswain and becoming coxswain in 1962, a position which he held until his...
Category: Obituaries