LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AS reported in the January issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the R.N.L.I., following an urgent appeal from the British Red Cross, sent staff and inshore rescue boats to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The cargo of inflatable boats...

Pictured are (from left to right) Shepherd Neame director Euan Johnstone, Coxswain Peter Barker, Jonathan Neame and Chris Sandwell, helmsman of Margate's inshore lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

AUGUST 20TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.

A barrage balloon had gone adrift, but efforts to capture it were unsuccessful, and it was destroyed by fire from a patrol boat. - Rewards, £14 2s..

Anniversaries are big news this year! It's the Diamond Jubilee of our Patron, a century since the Titanic sank (page 48) and the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, a passionate supporter of the RNLI.

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Naylor Swift of the Carmarthen branch of the R.N.L.I, is hoping to start a new fund-raising scheme this year. It is the 'basket supper' where couples bring baskets containing supper for two. Each basket is given a number and the men...

Ralph Let. Technical Editor 'Camping A Caravanning' the finest outdoor garments * I have ever seen . . . not just good material and well made It is the amount of thought that has gone into the design that delights me I give this •...

Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.

Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.

Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...