LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Offshore Lifeboat Service December 1979 January and February 1980
February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
Category: Services
Letters
Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
Category: Correspondence
A Long Hard Pull: Tug-Of-War Between Redcar (Seen Below) Teesmouth and Runswick Bay Lifeboat Crews Resulted In a Win for Runswick Bay and Helped Raise £637 on Re
A long, hard pull: Tug-of-war between Redcar (seen below), Teesmouth and Runswick Bay lifeboat crews resulted in a win for Runswick Bay and helped raise £637 on Redcar''s lifeboat day.
Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mike Eacott Licensee of the Crown Hotel North Scale Barrow-In-Furness His Barmaid and 12 'Regulars' Determined to Do Something Special for Barrow Lifeboat Took Lessons In Parachute Jumpi
Mike Eacott, licensee of the Crown Hotel, North Scale, Barrow-in-Furness, his barmaid and 12 'regulars', determined to do something special for Barrow lifeboat, took lessons in parachute jumping, then raised £1,800 in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Cash from College
Since its opening in 2004, The Lifeboat College has become firmly established as the home of RNLI training. Crew and lifeguard training is the College’s most important purpose, but it has also been doing a fi ne job fundraising. Last year...
Category: Articles
Pathfinder
We're going places.
Choose from these options - • SAIL TO SOUTH AFRICA AND FLY BACK • FLY TO SOUTH AFRICA AND SAIL BACK • SAIL BOTH WAYS NEW - now to LAS PALMAS and TENERIFE in the CANARY ISLANDS Join us on a leisurely...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND AND NEWBIGGIN, ABERDEENSHIRE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded new Life-boats to Blyth and Newburgh to take the place of Life-boats sent there some years since. Each boat is 31 feet long, 1 feet...
Category: Articles
A Message from the Director
Twelve months ago we predicted another busy, challenging year for the RNLI. and our predictions have certainly proved correct.
The launchings of the prototype FABs 3 and 4 were keenly anticipated as so many of our future...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Afon Gwili
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked...