LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Communication By Electric Telegraph and Signals on the Coast
BY the wreck of the Deutschland, the question of better means of communica- tion between outlying stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom and internal bases of supply, has received one more little jog forward into its inevitable ulti-...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 9
BEFORE concluding this subject, a few comparative notes as to cost, size, weight, &c., of the Life-boats under dis- cussion may prove of interest.
Taking the matter of cost first. It is difficult to assign the exact...
Category: Articles
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
Mrs E Pemberton
Mrs E. Pemberton, honorary treasurer of Wallasey Ladies' guild from 1950 to 1990. She was awarded a silver badge in 1962, a gold badge in 1977 and a bar to the gold badge in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
In This Issue.
News and views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat services Life at the sharp end including two Bronze Medal rescues 8 Porthcawl to Fishguard 16 Howard Richings continues his look at lifeboat stations around the coast Kings of...
Category: Contents
A 'Mayday' Fair Held at the Palmer Home Sarisbury Green Fareham In August Brought In £600 for the Rnli It Was the Idea of Teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram Who With the Help Of
A 'Mayday' Fair held at the Palmer home, Sarisbury Green, Fareham, in August brought in £600 for the RNLI. It was the idea of teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram who, with the help of Stuart's sister. Carmen, set up a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crossing the Bar In a Hurricane
AT 2.20 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Hartland Point informed the honorary secretary of the Appledore life-boat station, Captain P. Brennan, that the Polish vessel Gliwice was in distress ten miles west-by...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June. 102 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
In the Long Run
Sprinting in to the 'finish line' at Dover Edward Jones cheques in with his contribution to the RNLI's funds.
Edward had met the crew of the Dover lifeboat while on holiday in the area, and was so impressed by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs