LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A YEAR's ADOPTION
When an IRB boat was displayed at Worple Road Infants' School, Isleworth, Micclesex, coupled with a talk on the life-boat service, the R.N.L.I. received letters of appreciation from some of the pupils. The letters were accompanied by...
Category: Donations
Letter to the Editor
SIR - I am a life-boat enthusiast and as such I am particularly interested in boats and equipment. As there must be others like myself, would it be possible to form a R.N.L.I. Enthusiasts' Club ? May I, through this journal, ask what...
Category: Correspondence
Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, the barque Sparkling Wave, of Sunderland, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck, on the South Scroby Sand. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind at the time.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat went...
Fishing Vessels
LOCAL FISHING FLEET ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the honorary secretary decided that because of the bad weather conditions the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31)...
Marriage Boat
After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...
Category: Branches
The 1986 North Sunderland Harbour Fete
The 1986 North Sunderland harbour fete was officially opened by Her Grace the Duchess of Northumberland, seen here accepting a bouquet from Karla-Elise Reay, grand-daughter of branch secretary Robert Reay. Torrential rain half an hour before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Patrol Vessel Cramond Island
APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
Rescue By American Helicopter
Ix the early hours of the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the South Goodwin lightvessel began to drift. The first man on shore to have any suspicion that something might be amiss with the lightvessel was the Deal coastguard, who...
Category: Services
The Patrol Vessel Cramond Island (1)
APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...
Barrow September 27 1986:
Barrow, September 27, 1986: from model lifeboats to the real thing! The model lifeboat rallies organised by Des Newton since 1979 helped provide the funds to pay for Barrow's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, Modeller I. The handing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs