LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rnli National Lottery
THE DRAW for the 29th national lottery on April 30, 1985 was made by Captain Philip Roberts DSO who was captain of RFA Sir Galahad when she came under attack during the Falklands conflict in 1982. Before returning to sea in May this year,...
Category: Articles
October
Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...
Category: Services
Willowpool (2)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles N.E...
The Final Trials of the Motor Tractor
By Captain HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
I GAVE an account, in The Life-Boat for May, 1920, of the reasons which had led the Institution to look for some mechanical means for launching...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
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Junior Members of Wicklow Sailing Club Helped By Patrick Keogh Coxswain of Wicklow Lifeboat Organised a 24-Hour Sponsored Sail Last August Which Raised £520 T
Junior members of Wicklow Sailing Club, helped by Patrick Keogh, coxswain of Wicklow lifeboat, organised a 24-hour sponsored sail last August which raised £520. The money was donated to Wicklow branch funds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Punching waves
With skill, courage and brute strength, two RNLI lifeguards fought through heavy surf and high winds to reach surfers in peril
Days before the end of a busy lifeguard season, on the morning of...
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Annual Outrageous Raft Race
Any more flares? One of the 42 entrants in the annual Outrageous Raft Race organised by Harrison and Sons sports and social club, the High Wycombe branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club and Marlow Canoe Club. The course was a half-mile stretch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Days Aboard Welsh Life-Boats
FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
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People and Places
LONG SERVICE AWARDS THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aldeburgh Second Coxswain J. W. Churchyard Barrow Second Coxswain A. Benson Beaumaris Crew...
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