LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service during the past year to the Blyth Coast Life-Saving Company. As a result of their efforts nine members of the crew of the s...
Category: Awards
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two youths had been trapped by the rising tide at Fisher- man's Cove. A cliff rescue team had gone to...
Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick And Locum GP Christine Bradshaw Relive The Dramatic Rescue They Performed In The 15m Waves Of The Pentland Firth
Coxswain Kevin Kirkpatrick and locum Gp Christine bradshaw relive the dramatic rescue they performed in the 15m waves of the pentland firth Photos: Courtesy of Longbow Productions. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Slip sparks searchA summer holiday in Cornwall turned int by Fox Cove, near Newquay, on 9 August 2( unconscious into the water when a couple from Essex. They were walking le man slipped on rocks and was knockedInstinctively, the woman jumped...
Alec and Christina Dykes at Torbay
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 mayor Mrs Heather Buckpitt. 18/08/02. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH BERWICK.—One of the newest type of Life-boats has been placed on this station. It is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, rows ten oars, double banked, and is provided with a transporting carriage. The cost was defrayed from a bequest given to...
Category: Articles
Vip Launch:
VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Donations
Letters
Re-count. . .
The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...
Category: Correspondence
Glamorgan's Gift of Two Life-boats to the Prince of Wales
A SCHEME is on foot to commemorate the safe return of the Prince of Wales from his voyage of 35,000 miles by a presentation from the County of Glamorgan which will at the same time signalise the fact that he is the Pre- sident of THE ROYAL...
Category: Articles