LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Advancing a Great Cause
In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Membership Scheme News
Happy families There are no prizes for spotting the most recent change to our advertisement for enrolment into the RNLI Membership Scheme. There is no need for 'Family Membership' now, as children can become Storm Force members in...
Category: Articles
Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Sponsored walks are common enough these days but the 15th Long Eaton Venture Scout unit, in Nottinghamshire, decided to bring some water into the proceedings—by holding a sponsored row on 5th July, 1969. The proceeds were divided between the...
Category: Donations
The New 52-Feet Barnett Life-Boat for Ballycotton
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Category: Photographs
Listings
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0 A new base for Scotland The new combined Scotland divisional base and regional office was officially opened on 7 March 2002 by HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI. The move was planned some two years ago when...
Category: Articles
Under-14 Teams of Wold Junior Football League
Under-14 teams of Wold Junior Football League, East Yorkshire, have been competing this winter for the first time for a new football trophy for annual competition donated by the Lifeboat Crew's (Bridlington) Social Club. Fred Walkington,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
Janet C
Tyne class holds coaster from rocks The Bronze Medal has been awarded to the Salcombe coxswain/ mechanic Frank Smith for a service to the coaster Janet C, which prevented the vessel running aground in rough seas and a near gale in the early...