LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mudeford Ladies' Guild
How could anyone refuse to buy an apple or an orange from these irresistible sellers'.' Gabrie/le Blunden and Tamrnv Skan were he/ping Mudeford ladies' guild to raise more than £500 at its 1983 annual fete, which included... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
RNLI lottery 'You need hands' was the watchword on the day Max Bygraves drew the winning tickets for the 34th national lottery on July 31, 1986. Mr Bygraves, who was appearing in a summer show at the Poole Arts Centre, kept the...
Category: Articles
Bolinders Company Ltd
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The RNLI are putting Penta outboards in their new inshore rescue craft. With Penta 360, these revolutionary Dell Quay 17ft fibreglass...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
AN important extension of the Institu- tion's practice of encouraging rescues by shore-boats was put into effect in the summer of 1962 by the Institution in conjunction with the Ministry of Trans- port. Its purpose is to make wider and...
Category: Articles
(Right) An Rn Wessex Helicopter Exercising In Holes Bay With An Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat During Operational Demonstrations at Rnli Poole Open Days 1982
(Right) An RN Wessex helicopter exercising in Holes Bay with an Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat during operational demonstrations at RNLI Poole Open Days 1982.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
Category: Articles
Here and There
A YACHT RACE which never finished because there was not enough wind has brought five krugerrands, with a value of over £1,000, for the RNLI. Peter de Savary, chairman of the British syndicate entering the yacht Victory in the 1983...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
Swamped A 15FT SAILING DINGHY with three people on board had set off for a day's fishing off Flamborough Head on the morning of Sunday September 21,1986. On their return the dinghy capsized just off Smethwick Sands. The crew succeeded in...
Nestlea and Dereske (2)
NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...
Drifting in the dark
Two 13-year-olds found themselves drifting out to sea in the dark on the evening of 7 September.
Wearing only Summer clothes, they thought they had secured their inflatable dinghy close to the shore near Hove but later...
Category: Articles