LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ottowa
The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched shortly after 9 A.M. on the 26th December in a whole S.W. gale and heavy sea, a message having been received stating that several vessels were in danger in Plymouth Sound. She proceeded to the...
Zwaanntje Cornelia
About an hour before sunset, in misty weather, on the llth September a foreign schooner went ashore on the Barber Sand, and the Cockle Lightship commenced to fire guns. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled, and the boat...
Citrine (1)
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Cover Picture
One of Weston-super-Mare's two inshore lifeboats is an 18' 6" McLachlan. Designed byJ.A. McLachlan ofG. L. Watson and Co., Glasgow, she is built of glass reinforced plastic and has a ragged chine. With twin inboard petrol... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) of the £6000 Raised By Salcombe and Hope Branch No Less Than £2066 Resulted from the Efforts of the Lifeboat Crew and Their Wives Money Was Raised By Dance
(Above) Of the £6,000 raised by Salcombe and Hope branch, no less than £2,066 resulted from the efforts of the lifeboat crew and their wives. Money was raised by dances and other functions, but a large proportion came from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irbs Save Hundreds
Inshore rescue boats of the R.N.L.I, saved 733 lives last year. This is a record number and exceeds the 696 lives saved by IRBs over the whole of 1970. Since the R.N.L.I, first introduced its IRB fleet in 1963 the number of lives saved by...
Category: Services
Mr David Miles (Left) Manager of the 'Duke of York' Dering Street London Led a Sponsored Shave In Aid of the RNLI
Mr. David Miles (left), manager of the 'Duke of York', Dering Street, London, led a sponsored shave in aid of the R.N.L.I. He and his two barmen, Mr. Alan Hart and Mr. Sam Weaver, grew moustaches and beards for one month and then had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
CONTENTS Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Henley Naming Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 New Rother Class...
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Index to Advertisers
Bideford Shipyard 83 Brooke Marine .. .. .. .. .. .. .. inside front cover Brookes & Gatehouse .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 103 Cleghorn Waring 105 Coastal Radio 112 Cogswell Harrison .. .. .. . . . . .. .. .. 88 Dagenite Batteries 98 Decca...
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