LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies: Two Station Lifeboats at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; Relief Lifeboat at Poole; and the Prototype Tyne Class Lifeboat In the City of London
Mallaig, Inverness-shire EARLIER BAD WEATHER on Saturday September 11, 1982, gave way to a bright sunny morning at the attractive west coast of Scotland harbour of Mallaig as preparations were made for the naming of the station's new...
Category: Inaugurations
Pictured During the Presentation of This Year's Cheque for £1,000
Pictured during the presentation of this year's cheque for £1,000 are. from left to right, Don Galbraith, yacht club commodore; Brian Hurst, chairman of the Castletown branch; Rod Haire, representing Royal Life; Jane Galbraith,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Servants' Gift
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
Category: Donations
North Sunderland Life-Boat Arrives Back In Harbour After a Fruitless 12-Hour Search for a Missing Man
North Sunderland Life-Boat Arrives Back In Harbour After A Fruitless 12-Hour Search For A Missing Man. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For the Third Year In Succession Newport Branch
Fonthe third year in succession Newport branch, Gwent, has raised tl ,000 at its annual cocktail party held in the Missions to Seamen on Newport Docks. At the tombola drum, Councillor Roy Morris, Mayor of Newport and president of the branch,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ferry Tor Gothia
Ferry aground in North Sea Cromer - East Division An arduous service by Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat to a 5,000 ton roll-on, rolloff ferry which was aground in bad weather has earned the Coxswain, Richard Davies, a letter of appreciation...
1 lb. of Tobacco a Year for the Life-Boats
THE Glasgow Branch has received ten guineas from the Captain and Crew of the motor-ship Cape York of the Lyle Shipping Company of Glasgow. Before passing round the Institution's collecting-book the Captain wrote in it a special appeal in...
Category: Articles
Travelscope-1
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Category: Advertisement
Shoreline
IN THE PAST tWO JSSUCS of THE LIFEBOAT I have asked members of my staff to give you an insight into their work within the department and I think you will agree that this has caused a fair amount of interest. So in this issue I would like to...
Category: Articles
Newspaper Award for Best Account of a Life-Boat Service
The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby...
Category: Awards