LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Silver Medal Service at Longhope
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
Category: Services
Mrs. Amy Lea Warren Pearl
MRS. AMY LEA WARREN PEARL, an honorary life-governor of the Institu- tion, died on ist February, 1964, at the age of 83. She was a member of the Chelsea branch committee from 1936, became vice-chairman in 1951, and subscribed generously to...
Category: Obituaries
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...
Category: Articles
Mercantile Credit
Help yourself.... and the R.N.L.I.
Special rates on loans to buy what you want- now! Every loan a RNLI member takes out, under a special arrangement with Mercantile Credit Company Limited, means a welcome donation to the...
Category: Advertisement
Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
Category: Articles
Exeter Friendly
Enjoy retirement even more with Private Medica Insurance from as little as £32 per month.* Welcome to Shared Care from Exeter Friendly Society - the new affordable approach to Private Medical Insurance. Shared Care gives you the...
Category: Advertisement
Saving Life from Shipwreck In Denmark
THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
Category: Articles
Graham Raines
Graham Raines Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 on a service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988.
Crew Member Raines entered the water in conditions near the limit of operation for an Atlantic 21 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pictured Below L-R: Tower Pier Lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44)
Pictured below L-R: Tower Pier lifeboat Crew Members Kaverne Bailey (23), Michael 'Fester' Sinacola (38) and Ian Barnaby (44) Pictured right and bottom right: Bill Callaghan is a yeoman at the Tower of London - and a volunteer at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs