LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tony's Club Talk
.Intrepid yachtsman and survivor Tony Bullimore, travelled up the country on 14 April to talk to members of the Ribble Cruising Club at Lytham and donated all admission fees to Lytham lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'Order, Order!'
Left to right: Girvan Lifeboat Operations Manager Colin McKechnie, Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP and Coxswain Roddy Leitch Photo: Carrie* Gazette. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fred Skywalker
Scarborough lifeboat honorary secretary, Fred Normandale, along with his daughter Sarah, Glynn Simpson and Jackie Cunningham wing walked over Scarborough on 2 August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jack Gets the Ball Rolling
Crowds gathered to welcome football legend Jack Charlton and his wife Pat at the opening of the Seahouses (North Sunderland) lifeboat fete on Bank Holiday Monday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Fighting Services.
Last year the three fighting services, with their women's services, gave the Lifeboat Service more than ever before, £25,508. That is £6,123 more than in 1942..
Category: Articles
A £20,000 thank you - 65 years later
Richard Tookey was just 14 when Shoreham lifeboat crew rescued him and his family from their stricken yacht in 1948. Now the station has enough funds to fuel their lifeboat for 5 years after he donated £20,000 as a thank...
Category: Articles
A Landing Craft (2)
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. A landing craft had been reported adrift, but the lifeboat was recalled by the naval authorities.
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Fundraising
Selling gifts and souvenirs is an excellent way of raising both funds and the profile of the lifeboat service. RNLI (Sales) provides a range of products for the wide variety of shops and events run by volunteers. In 2001 its turnover was...
Category: Articles
Busiest Year Yet
Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.
Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...
Category: Articles
Sea Fever
Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...