LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Names Rnlb Rotary Service Dover
DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales
THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
Category: Services
The Oil Rig Sea Gem (2)
Wells, Norfolk. On 29th December, 1965, the life-boat Tom Neathercoat was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem. A full account of this service appears on page 63..
Punching waves
With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril
Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...
Category: Articles
A Cheque for £160 Was Presented on 7Th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat,
A cheque for £160 was presented on 7th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat, winners of Westward TV's life-boat competition run in conjunction with the regional quiz programme 'Treasure Hunt'. Every time a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Launch
Eastney, Hampshire. On 3ist October, 1965, the Eastney IRB rescued six men from a fishing launch. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made, appears on page 16..
The Severn Class Lifeboat. the Whiteheads, for St.Mary's on the Isles of Scilly.
Main: Supporter Miss Olive Whitehead bequeathed the whole of her residuary estate to the lifeboat service with the request that it be used to fund a lifeboat named in memory of her parents.
The legacy amounted to around... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pig Farms, Cottages and Parrots
A legacy is a simple matter to set up, but sometimes whatthe RNLI receives is far from simple.
Ray Kipling, the Institution's Deputy Director, explains 'We're very proud of our new lifeboat. We'll take good...
Category: Articles
2000 Rescue Statistics
RNLI lifeboat crews were responsible for rescuing 6,326 people during 2000.
This continues the extremely encouraging decline in numbers that has been seen over the past few years: real evidence that sea safety messages are...
Category: Articles
November
Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...
Category: Services