LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Back In Time
Southport branch held a 1940s night at a local pub in March which proved to be a great success - raising £350 for lifeboat coffers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Matter of Training
A matter of training How does the RNLI ensure that its lifeboat crews are ready to cope with any emergency that might come up? went to the inshore training centre at Cowes to find out.If you are ever unfortunate enough to run into trouble at...
Category: Articles
Around the Fundraising Regions
Around the Fundraising Regions A list of branches and guilds from the Central England and Wales regions CENTRAL ENGLAND RNLI 102 Birmingham Road Bromsgrove Wares B61 ODF Tel (0527) 575017 Regional Organiser, Ms J. Feeney LLB Warwickshire...
Category: Branches
Ferjo
STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was...
People and Places
New Year Honours Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Rear Admiral Morgan Morgan Giles, DSO QBE GM. For political service. Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan Giles has been a member of the Committee of...
Category: Articles
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Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
Neco Marine Ltd.
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboats to the Flood Rescue
• ev he first call came at 7.40am on Thursday 12 October. Following some of the heaviest rain ever seen in the South East. East Sussex Fire Brigade requested the RNLI's assistance with flood relief in Uckfield. This was the start of a...
Category: Services
Stingray and Sultan
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.4 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two flares had been burned by the m.f.v. Stingray. There was a fresh north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was almost high water. The...
Menelaos, of Piraeus
Less than twelve hours later the Selsey Life-boat was again called out.
During the afternoon the Crew had stood by, as there was a good deal of traffic in the Channel, and the second call came at 10.20 P.M., when news was...