LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Left to Right: Mr. John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. Harry Platt.
From left to right: Mr. - View image in PDF
John Lodge, Tamasine, Mrs. Pam Bull, Mr. John Bull, Coxswain Charles Bolingbroke and Mr. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Ramsgate Lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann Photographed Bv Ray Noble a Crew Member on the Night Gloire a Marie II Was Saved
Ramsgate lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, photographed bv Ray Noble, a crew member on the night Gloire a Marie II was saved.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charity from the Workless
THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...
Category: Donations
'A loyal, committed and strong personality'
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Robert Wright MBE, Second Coxswain at Pwllheli Lifeboat Station. Robert was taken ill during a lifeboat launch in September and, despite the best efforts of his fellow crew and other...
Category: Articles
Here and There
SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...
Category: Articles
Award for Rescue to Ten-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, two boys, aged eight and eleven, who were in difficulties when swimming, began to shout for help.
They were then about 200 yards north- north-east of the Appledore...
Category: Awards
Spurn Head and Its Spit Are Fascinating Geological Features
Spurn Head and its spit are fascinating geological features - but they are a problem for the RNLI and the Humber Pilots who both operate there.
The lifeboat can be seen lying afloat off the T-shape pier on the left of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
Message from the Chairman
Towards the close of a year in which greater demands were made on the life-boat service than ever before, I would like to congratulate everyone connected with the service on their splendid achievements and to wish them all a very happy...
Category: Articles
Keith and Nigel Pask Decided to Clear Out Their Toy Cupboard and Set Up a Mini-Market
Keith and Nigel Pask decided to clear out their toy cupboard and set up a mini-market in the garage of their house in Banbury, Oxfordshire. They invited school friends to come and buy and at the end of the day had taken £19.50 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs