LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Stick or pin? Is this the end of an era? Another chapter ended in our history? I refer to the demise of that ancient institution, the boat-on-a-pin flag day emblem, which is now being replaced by the adhesive type.
What...
Category: Correspondence
Page & Moy
Destinations include: Spitzbergen, Fjords & North Cape 15 nights from 14 - 29 August Cruise No. 4A01 The National Trust Northern Capitals Cruise 7 nights from £74!t 21 - '2X August Cruise No. 4YI3 Magnificent Norwegian Fjords 7...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Calendars and Christmas Card
THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.
The hanging...
Category: Advertisement
Portpatrick's Tyne Class Lifeboat Takes Princess Alexandra to Sea After the Ceremony
Portpatrick's Tyne class lifeboat takes Princess Alexandra to sea after the ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TRAPPED BY THE TIDE
Two walkers and their dog get caught between rising seawater and 30m cliffs
Christine and Mollie stepped off the bus at Tregantle in Cornwall in late September for a day’s walking. The 25 miles between Cremyll and Polperro...
Category: Articles
The Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester Going Out on Exercise In a South East Gale and Snow-Storm on 12Th March 1969
The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For a Change the Endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick Is Being Tested
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Conchita
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.20 a.m.
on 23rd February, 1966, while working on the foreshore, the coxswain noticed a yacht aground on the Lavan sands with a man on board, and realizing that the yacht Conchita would be in danger...
Junior Members of Wicklow Sailing Club Helped By Patrick Keogh Coxswain of Wicklow Lifeboat Organised a 24-Hour Sponsored Sail Last August Which Raised £520 T
Junior members of Wicklow Sailing Club, helped by Patrick Keogh, coxswain of Wicklow lifeboat, organised a 24-hour sponsored sail last August which raised £520. The money was donated to Wicklow branch funds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Declaring the New Bill Knott Building Open Mrs Margaret Thatcher
After declaring the new Bill Knott Building open, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister, unveils a commemorative plaque near the main entrance. With her is the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs