LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sponsored Launch
Sharon Kirwan and Elizabeth Lynch are pictured presenting a cheque to Paddy Hodgins, honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station for the' sponsored launch' of the lifeboat.
The money was raised by students... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thousands of People Attended Hoylake
Thousands of people attended Hoylake open day last August which had as its peak of entertainment a display by the RAF's world famous Red Arrows, seen here just as they pass over Hovlake lifeboat. Royal Marines dropped by parachute from a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shearwater Press
NOW Available FOR THOSE IN PERIL The Life and Times of Sir William Hillary, Founder of the R.N.L.I.
Robert Kelly Illustrated by Norman Sayle £4.75 For Those in Peril tells of the early days of the Royal National...
Category: Advertisement
Summary of Accounts for 1979
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the Royal Festival Hall, London, will be published in the autumn issue O/THE LIFEBOAT.
Category: Accounts
Bangor Co Down:
Bangor, Co Down: The scene at the waterfront when, on Friday June 15, the dedication of the station's new D class inflatable lifeboat took place together with the official opening of the lifeboathouse recently built by North Down Borough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fraserburgh
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Buccaneer Aircraft
Ditched aircraft AT 2225 on April 22, 1987 the station honorary secretary at Wick was alerted by Pentland Coastguard that a Buccaneer aircraft had ditched in the sea more than 21 miles north east by east of Wick.
The 48ft...
Solihull Appeal
Although the Borough of Solihull Lifeboat Appeal formally closed in September of last year, money kept flooding in after that date and the total raised was £41,310.74.
The money will be used to purchase a new Atlantic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kirkwall - Scotland Division
Kirkwall, capital of Orkney and its Mainland island, lies upon a busy harbour in which there is a constant coming and going of fishing boats, ferries and other seagoing traffic.
Kirkwall station opened in 1972 following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary
It is with deep regret that we report the following deaths: February: Daniel Roach, coxswain of St Ives lifeboat from 1956 to 1967, having previously served as assistant mechanic from 1940 to 1946 and motor mechanic from 1946 to 1956. Mr...
Category: Obituaries