LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunday May 26 1974: North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter Iii Took Medical Assistance to a Boy Who Had Fallen Over the Cliff In a Bay Which Could Only Be Reached from Seaward T
Sunday, May 26, 1974: North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III took medical assistance to a boy who had fallen over the cliff in a bay which could only be reached from seaward. The boy was found to be too badly injured to be taken off by sea, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Roy Caws of Cowes Base Explains the Finer Points of a D Class Inflatable to a Visitor at Cowes
(Right) Roy Caws of Cowes Base Explains The Finer Points of A D Class Inflatable To A Visitor at Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Too Many Cooks! Portpatrick
Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doing the Rounds
Rita Dlxon, member of Mirfield ladies guild, organised a sponsored bed and wheelchair push around Dewsbury and District Hospital raising £264 for the RNLI. Rita, an employee of the hospital, was joined by her son John, colleagues Joan... - View image in PDF
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Mrs. Bella Mattison of Cullercoats. The Last of a Memorable Band
MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
Category: Articles
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boats at Sea for 66 Hours
AT twenty-five minutes past midnight •on the 26th January, 1954, a Washington aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber Command, bound for the Azores, wirelessed that she was in difficulties through icing and that her crew of seven were baling out. The...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1895
THE Board of Trade is to be congratulated on the success of its efforts to lay before the public the " Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which have occurred on or near the Coasts of the United Kingdom " up to the latest possible...
Category: Articles
Shoreline and Storm Force
UNDER 16? JOIN THE RNLI HAS JUST launched its new junior membership club, Storm Force. Aimed at young people under 16 years of age, Storm Force is designed to give youngsters a fascinating insight into the work of the RNLI. Individual...
Category: Articles
Fit for the Job
The request for medical assistance from a German cargo ship led to a call for Margate's Mersey class lifeboat, Leonard Kent, on New Year's Eve 1 998 when one of the ship's crew had to be evacuated after badly breaking his leg...
Category: Articles