LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BRITANNIA RESCUE
We've been voted Road Rescue Best Buy for the 4th consecutive time by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine. We also recover trailers of any length. That's why the RNLI made us its official membership motoring rescue scheme...
Category: Advertisement
A Shore Thing
Howard Richings continues his tour of the RNLI's lifeboat stations It's an ill wind that blows no good. 1998 certainly began in fine style if one was into windsurfing, whereas in January 1997 it would have required an icebreaker to...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Services In January and February, 1947
Launches 90 Lives Rescued 61 During January and February life-boats put out to the rescue ninety times and rescued sixty-one lives, and the Institution gave to its crews and launchers for these services, and for assemblies of crews, rewards...
Category: Services
Shoreline
Appeal success It was a proud moment when Southend Mayor Ken Cater unveiled a commemorative plaque at the town's inshore lifeboat house, next to the pier.
It acknowledged the hard work of Shoreline Club No. 3 in raising...
Category: Articles
1st Walton Viking Sea Scouts
A cheque for £350 for Walton and Hersham branch is presented by Richard Holley (centre left) to Sydney Gillingham, deputy regional organiser (South East). Around them are the members of the 1st Walton Viking Sea Scouts who had raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (22)
MAY 2 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea two miles N.E. of Broadstairs, but the lifeboat could find nothing, and later it was learned that the crew had been rescued.- Rewards, £5 11s. 6d..
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : JOHN C. BYFORD, 6} years coxswain, 15} years second coxswain, and 18} years bowman of the Walton and...
Category: Awards
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out to Sea With the Wreath
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out To Sea With The Wreath. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs