LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
Category: Articles
Mrs Amy Hughes
Mrs Amy Hughes - Castleford and Pontefract branch Vice President.
Category: Obituaries
John Noakes and Peter Purves Aboard Blue Peter Ii With Lieut-Colonel V J C Cooper Honorary Secretary Beaumaris (Second from Left) Coxswain William Pritchard Cr
John Noakes and Peter Purves, aboard Blue Peter II, with Lieut.-Colonel V. J. C. Cooper, honorary secretary Beaumaris (second from left), Coxswain William Pritchard, crew and helpers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Trapped_men rescued from pier supports D class thrown against pier supports and holed during night service Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that...
Category: Services
Listings
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
Category: Articles
The 1972-1973 National Project of the Co-Operative Women's Guild Is An Appeal to Raise £6000 for the Purchase of Two Ilbs for the RNLI Last Year Members of the G
The 1972-1973 national project of the Co-operative Women's Guild is an appeal to raise £6,000 for the purchase of two ILBs for the R.N.L.I. Last year members of the guild visited the London headquarters of the R.N.L.I. and are here... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cheyenne and Ida Bakke
SEPT. 16TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 3.20 A.M. a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy action 200 miles off...
An Aircraft
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that wreckage of an aircraft had been seen four miles south of Varne lightvessel. At 12.50 the life- boat Charles...
Aberdeen: on Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...