LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jean Stephen
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.50 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was ashore in Sinclair Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a moderate...
(Right) the Day Itself:
(right) The day itself: Some of the Bottle Stall team ready for action, (I. to r.) Mrs Meg Myerscough, Mrs Ann Daly, Patrick McLarnon, Mrs Zita Mulhern and Mrs Gaby Mooney..
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings '99
A year in the life of the KNLI… The RNLH's anniversary year annual meetings were held at the Barbican on 1j May 1999.
As well as 'Pfiviunt'pf a review of another hii' successful year Chairman David Acland...
Category: Meetings
Three Medallists from Tenby
The coxswain, motor mechanic and bowman visit London to receive medals (see page 705). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (21)
JUNE 14TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 10s. 2d..
Jean Edmonds
FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.
At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat....
The Record of 1926
1926 was, in. its weather, a normal year, with severe gales in October and November. During the year there were 269 launches of Life-boats on service, 65 more than in 1925, and 456 lives were rescued from shipwreck, 73 more than in 1925. Of...
Category: Annual Reports
Geronimo! Regular Customers of the Queen O'T'Owd Thatch Pub
Geronimo! Regular customers of the Queen o't'owd Thatch pub in South Milford made a sponsored parachute jump to raise money for Castleford ladies guild. A cheque for £906.50 was later handed over to Brian Stevenson, regional... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Centenary Meeting
The CHAIRMAN : Your Royal Highness, my Lords, ladies and gentlemen, to-day is the hundredth birthday of our Life-boat Service.
That is the historic event which we have met here to celebrate.
It is, and...
Category: Meetings
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Two hours searching - but nothing found One person is rescued, on average, every time an RNLI lifeboat is launched. Life-saving rescues are great news stories and it is these that capture the headlines across the country. But often the less...