LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saved from the freezing sea
A couple made a desperate call for help in the early hours of 20 December 2009 when their motorboat got into difficulties in near-gale conditions and snow showers off the mouth of the Humber.
The batteries to their VHF...
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Royal Festival Hall 1972 and Robert Haworth Receives from Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli the Silver Medal Awarded for Barmouth Ilb's Service on J
Royal Festival Hall, 1972, and Robert Haworth receives from HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, the silver medal awarded for Barmouth ILB's service on June 21, 1971.. - View image in PDF
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Helping Hand, of Lowestoft
DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...
Right: RNLI Ream Members With Compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.
Right: RNLI ream members with compares Nell, Frank and Lucy.. - View image in PDF
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Suffolk Firm Building Faster Boats for the Rnli
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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Tom Lawrence and the Rnli
Tom Lawrence and the RNLI both struck gold in a charity treasure hunt organised by Gillingham Marina at the London boat show this year. Tom guessed the right spot for the hidden hoard and received a handmade pewter statuette and a bottle of... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
OUR Life-boat Saturday friends have not been idle since we issued our last notice of the Fund. Fresh committees have been formed and active measures taken in all directions to secure success and development in the near future, although the...
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The Zixex Club
The 7-ixex Club, supporters ofPewsey branch, used the white horse they had made for Pewsey Carnival to raise money for the lifeboat service, towing it on wheels from Pewsey via Salisbury, Downton, Fordingbridge, Ringwood and Christclnirch to... - View image in PDF
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Moneta and Other Yachts
Newhaven, Sussex. — At five in the afternoon, on the 27th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a Brighton police report that a yacht was in dis- tress one mile off Saltdean. At 5.12 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
Heather Deane of the Rnli Poole Office Signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines
Heather Deane of the RNLI Poole Office signs on Howard Lang: 'The Onedin Line's' Captain Baines.. - View image in PDF
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