LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
At 5 p.m. on 25th July, 1966, information was received that a boat had beendriven ashore at Ballycreenan Strand, three and a half miles north east of Ballycotton. A search was carried out along the shore but without success. The life-boat...
A Swift Half!
Television personality Pam Rhodes and her daughter, Bethan, are pictured alongside a half-scale model of a Tyne class lifeboat which Hitchin branch displayed at Walsworth Festival alongside its souvenir stall.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (7)
JULY 23RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A small yacht had gone aground in a dangerous position, but she refloated with the rising tide. - Rewards, £7 10s..
A Cable Layer
JULY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
A cable layer had struck a mine, but patrol boats picked up the survivors. - Rewards, £ 5 5 s ..
A Yacht (12)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - CROMARTY. A yacht had been seen showing red flares, but she was taken in tow by a fishing vessel.- Rewards, £6 5s. (See Burghead, “Services by Shore-boats,” page 78.).
A Fighter Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A fighter aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but nothing was seen and the life-boat was recalled by a wireless message. - Rewards, £24 11s.
Below: the Duke of Atholl a Vice President of the RNLI and Convener Scottish Life-Boat Council Presenting a Certificate of Service to Mr Evan Owens at the Boat Sho
Below: The Duke of Atholl.a vice president of the R.N.L.I. and Convener, Scottish Life-boat Council, presenting a certificate of service to Mr. Evan Owens at the Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 THE TRUE MEASURE OF SUCCESS — 1,038 LIVES SAVED IN 1975 THOSE MARVELLOUSLY UNDER-STATED CITATIONS . . .' Thus Raymond Baxter put into words the feelings of the crowded Royal Festival Hall on the...
Category: Meetings
Fig 6: Bob Stock Who More Than 36 Years Ago Was Awarded the Bronze Medal for His Part In a Service Which Took Dover Lifeboat Into Minefields Adjusts the Tappets on One
Fig. 6: Bob Stock, who more than 36 years ago was awarded the bronze medal for his part in a service which took Dover lifeboat into minefields, adjusts the tappets on one of Edian Courtauld's twin Ford Barracuda engines.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—On the 2nd January, 1939, the crew of four of the motor trawler Yankee Girl were rescued by another fishing boat.—Rewards, £2 105., with £3 for loss of fishing, and 2s. 6d....
Category: Services