LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Originator and principal organiser of Dublin Lifeboat Spring Sale, Mrs Penny Montague Kavanagh.

photograph by courtesy of Charles Collins.

COINS AND STAMPS 0 Many thanks for putting my article on coins and stamps in the October Journal. One small point is that we gave the prices as at September, 1972, whereas they were September 1971. As forecast, the common varieties have...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.37 p.m. on ipth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal National Life-boat Institution's reserve life-boat Edward Z Dresden (O.N. 707) on passage from Workington to...

Above: Ian Venner manoeuvres the dead whale into the slings, ready for towing to the local boatyard.. - View image in PDF

Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...

Lt Cdr M.W. Bond, honorary secretary at West Mersea lifeboat station from 1968 to 1983..

If it stays in your wallet, it can't help our volunteer crews.

Running a lifeboat service 365 days of the and training its over 4,000 crew members is expensive exercise.

But this is where you and your...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: The coaster Sea Rhine, her cargo shifted, founders. Her mate had been taken off by the 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami.. - View image in PDF