LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As reported in the September issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, T.V. announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.

Ltd., presented a television set to the crew of 70-001 when she visited Bristol earlier this... - View image in PDF

While trying to help the yachtsmen the inflatable dinghy was capsized. The two lifeboatmen who had been manning her and one of Melfort's crew, swept down to Derby Haven breakwater, were successfully lifted from the sea by the crew of the... - View image in PDF

• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.

Should an organisation so...

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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...

LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...

For which Rewards were given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.

February Meeting.

F~ Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the morning of the 8th January the fishing boat...

LAUNCH IN WORST BLIZZARD IN LIVING MEMORY Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. On the 5th February, 1963, the worst blizzard in living memory occurred and all road and air transport came to a halt. By the 8th there was an acute shortage of food, and...

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