LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Runs for fun As part of their lifeboat day '85 Tighnabruaich and District guild organised a raft race fun run, when competitors had to wear fancy dress. The first prize was given to staff from the Royal Hotel who entered the race as...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's Annual Meetings for 1995, held on 18 May, took place at a new venue in London - the Barbican Centre in the City.
The move from the South Bank Centre was a break with the tradition of the past few years and...
Category: Meetings
Municipal Life Assurance
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Category: Advertisement
Lecture on Life-Boats
I.—Preliminary Remarks, IN a country bounded on all sides by the sea, whose earliest associations are connected with it, through the medium of which it has derived its civilization, its wealth, its grand political status, and probably to a...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Sevices
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Category: Services
A Steamer (2)
24th November. A steamer stranded on the Goodwin Sands, "but came off with the rising tide.—Rewards, £30 16s, 6d..
In the Cabin
The transmitter and receiver, with the power pack underneath, and the microphone in the mechanic's hand. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inset: the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
Inset: The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight salutes the fleet with the evocative sight and sound of Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs