LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minnie Coles
On Sunday morning, the 12th November, the schooner Minnie Coles, of Chester, with a cargo of coal from Kuncorn, arrived off Arklow harbour, and was compelled, owing to the heavy seas, to anchor about a mile outside. During the after- noon an...
Every Year Calshot Branch Organises A
Every year Calshot branch organises a bonfire party and last November £2,000 was raised. - View image in PDF
Jenni Murray of BBC South was among those who joined in the fun. In ten years Calshot branch has raised £28,500.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
77-year-old paperboy still delivers
Paper rounds have traditionally been carried out by children and young people – but 77-year-old David Rickard from Devon doesn’t let that stop him. Since 2006, the pensioner paperboy has been donating all of his wages and tips to good causes...
Category: Articles
FLASH FICTION WINNER
Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...
Category: Articles
Stores Depot: Every Kind of Spare Part from Marine Engines to Nuts and Bolts Is Housed In a Warehouse on Poole Quay
Stores depot: every kind of spare part from marine engines to nuts and bolts is housed in a warehouse on Poole Quay.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martin and Nigel Lutt Raised £33 for the Leighton Branch With Their Own Exhibition of Model Aircraft and Soldiers Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Beds and Bucks Obser
Martin and Nigel Lutt raised £.33 for the Leighton branch with their own exhibition of model aircraft and soldiers. photograph by courtesy of the 'Beds, and Bucks. Observer'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The crew eye-view 2008 in pictures
Hanna Nuuttila, RNLI Crew Member from New Quay, Cardiganshire, is the RNLI Photographer of the year 2008. Hanna’s winning entry shows Pwllheli’s Mersey class lifeboat Lilly and Vincent Anthony going to the aid of the yacht Galasma in force 8...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, of Anstruther
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, joint honorary secretary of the Anstruther life-boat station, died on 3rd November. He had been associated with its work for forty-seven years, and his father and he had been its honorary secretaries since it was...
Category: Obituaries
Your Letters
Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.
A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...
Category: Correspondence