LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Steve Vince, the Coxswain of Poole's Brede Class Lifeboat Holds One of the Winning Tickets In the Draw for the RNLI's 69Th Quarterly Lottery
Steve Vince, the coxswain of Poole's Brede class lifeboat holds one of the winning tickets in the draw for the RNLI's 69th quarterly lottery.With him are members of the Poole crew and Anthony Oliver, the Institution's deputy head... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
Rose of Lancaster
OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a...
The Spanish Longliner Xisti
Arun at sea for nine hours in winds gusting to lOOmph The Arun class lifeboat City of Bradford, at Ballyglass during the new station's twelve-month evaluation period, carried out a long and arduous service on 11 February which earned the...
Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett Lifeboat the Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No 33) on Exercise With An Rnas Culdrose Wessex Mk I Helicopter Off the Lizard Two of the Rn
Lizard-Cadgwith: 52' Burnett lifeboat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33) on exercise with an RNAS Culdrose Wessex Mk I helicopter off the Lizard. Two of the RN aircrew launched with the lifeboat; three lifeboatmen spent a short... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Help of Golf Clubs
DURING 1937 sixty-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £222 6*. 6d- Two more clubs held the competition than in 1936, and £25 more was contributed. The same appeal has been made...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Explorer, of Leith
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...
Around the Fundraising Regions
branches and guilds in the Southern and Republic of Ireland regions SOUTHERN ENGLAND RNLI 17 Cobham Road Ferndown Wimborne Dorset BH21 7PE Tel (0202) 861166 Fax(0202) 861116 Regional Manager: Mrs E. W. Nelson Berkshire Ascot Bracknell and...
Category: Branches
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
Category: Articles
Grand Celebration
In October 1989 the Lytham St Annes Ladies' Lifeboat Luncheon Club celebrated its 25th anniversary, and at a party held to celebrate this, and the director's, 25 years with the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles was asked to help cut the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs