LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
Lady Friendship
Crew braves WWII defences to rescue grounded yacht
The Late Jacko Harris
The late Jacko Harris with just a few of the many thousands of school children he showed round Appledore lifeboat house in the last 14 years of his life.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Site of the Rescue, the Causeway Leading to Fort Clonque
The site of the rescue, the causeway leading to Fort Clonque. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Busiest Year Yet
Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.
Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (16)
DECEMBER 31ST. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Signals of distress had been made by a vessel, but before the life-boat reached her she signalled again that she did not need help and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £13...
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South Eastern Division Injured climber SWANAGE COASTGUARD requested the launch of Swanage lifeboat at 1710 on Saturday June 16, 1979, to go to the help of a seriously injured cliff climber at Ragged Rocks, some quarter of a mile west of...
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall,- Westminster, on the 27th of June, 1949, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
A 20 Mile Sponsored Walk In Aid of the R.N.L.I. Set Many Feet Walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. on the Left Mr F. W. Shearing, Chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, Is Shown
A 20 mile sponsored walk in aid of the R.N.L.I. set many feet walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. On the left Mr F. W. Shearing, chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, is shown with some of the walkers before they started their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Organiser of the City of Edinburgh Lifeboat Appeal
People from all walks of life like to help the RNLI and this fact was certainly demonstrated recently. The organiser of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal were delighted to receive a cheque for £35 from the residents of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs