LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lerwick January 4 1988:
LERWICK, January 4, 1988: when the Danish fishing vessel Setubal fouled her propeller on her own nets 65 miles east of Lerwick, no other vessel in the vicinity was available to take her in tow. Lerwick lifeboat launched at 1602, made the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Setubal
LERWICK, January 4, 1988: when the Danish fishing vessel Setubal fouled her propeller on her own nets 65 miles east of Lerwick, no other vessel in the vicinity was available to take her in tow. Lerwick lifeboat launched at 1602, made the...
Royal Visit for Penlee Crew
HRH Princess Diana, the Duchess of Cornwall, met members of the crew of the Penlee lifeboat during her official visit to Newlyn, where she officially opened the town's new £lm fish market.
The Princess visited the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sheringham's Salvation
Sheringham's Salvation Worldwide leader of the Salvation Army, General Eva Burrows, visited Sheringham on 29 September for the centenary celebrations of the Sheringham Corps, and one of her calls was at the local lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Bay Monarch
Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
Front Cover
Fishguard's Trent, 14-03 Blue Peter VII, covers herself with spray while on exercise off the Welsh coast.
Blue Peter VII was funded by 'Blue Peter's' Pieces of Eight appeal, and is the first all-weather... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Multipurpose Collectors!
Friday 30 June brought glorious weather for Scarborough's lifeboat day and resulted in supporters collecting over £4,000.
The following two days of fundraising activities, which included a barbecue, a raft race and... - View image in PDF
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Sir Ronald Radford
SEPTEMBER 1995 Sir Ronald Radford KCB MBE, a life vice-president of the RNLI. Sir Ronald was elected to the committee of management in 1977 and was appointed a vice-president in 1986 and a life vice-president in 1991. He was also chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Kayaking for Cash
Kayaking for cash A group of kayaking instructors arrived at Poole in September to present the local lifeboat crew with money raised during a tough three-day expedition promoting safe sea kayaking.
The presention was an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Name's Bond...
When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs