LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Weekend In September
Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14, 1975: 47 launches on service FOUR AWARDS FOR GALLANTRYTWO SILVER MEDALS, a bronze medal, a vellum, 47 launches on service, 34 lives rescued, nine vessels saved, 172 hours at sea. Not a record by RNLI...
Category: Services
When a Child Became Sick Aboard the Educational Cruise Ship Dunera In July, 1966, She Altered Course to Rendezvous With the Lowestoft Life-Boat Three Miles Off The Coast
When a child became sick aboard the educational cruise ship Dunera in July, 1966, she altered course to rendezvous with the Lowestoft life-boat three miles off the coast. - View image in PDF
The service is reported on page 247.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas James Jeune, of Beaumaris, Anglesey.
He was appointed coxswain at the beginning of 1939; was away on war service from September, 1939, until June, 1945; and then took up...
Category: Articles
March
MARCH Launches 63. Lives rescued 75.
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They...
Category: Services
Come Rain Or Shine
Regular visitors to Lyrne Regis will no doubt recognise this smiling face! 'The Axminster music man' Norman Welsh plays his accordion along Lyme's promenade in all weathers during flag week, collecting money for charities as he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Off to Pacific
Last year the former coxswain ol the Plymouth life-boat, Mr. Peter White, left England with his family to take up a government appointment in the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific Ocean. His place has been taken by Mr. John Dare, the second...
Category: Articles
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Volunteers are very much at the heart of the RNLI. The charity's lifesaving service could not exist without their passion and relies on an army of willing helpers to go out in lifeboats, to fundraise, to promote safety and...
Category: Articles
Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Stormbound Off Barra
Stormbound off Barra Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
Category: Articles