LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Luella
Barrow, Lancashire - At midnight on 3rd August, 1966, a red flare was reported about two miles offshore. At 12.45 a distress signal was observed from the fishing boat Luella. At 1.5 the lifeboat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...
lolanthe
At 11.57 a-m- °n 2r>d September, 1966, information was received that the German ship Jane had the British yacht lolanthe in tow and was anxious to hand her over to the life-boat. The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
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Stronsay, Orkney-At i.io p.m. on 27th November, 1966. the doctor on Sanday asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to convey a woman suffering from acute appendicitis to hospital at Kirkwall. At 1.35 the lifeboat The...
Moss Rose (1)
COBLE ESCORTED At 9.30 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a coble which was five miles away might be in need of assistance as weather conditions were deteriorating. The lifeboat Friendly Forester...
The Fourteenth Collecting Box to Be Put Before the Public In the Chertsey Area: This One Is at the Leisure Centre Thorpe Park and Was Unveiled By Rnli Chairman the Duke of Atholl (I) In the Pres
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roimbahn
Fire at sea 'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn.
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24...
David Mitchell Mp Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department of Transport Was Particularly Keen to Look Over Rnli
David Mitchell, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary for the Department of Transport, was particularly keen to look over RNLI headquarters when he paid a brief visit to Poole in October. In an hour and a half he toured head office and the depot... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Show Cheque
Chris Hoffman of McMurdo Marine (left) handed over a cheque for over £3,000 to RNLI Director, Andrew Freemantle, at the London Boat Show 2000.
The money was raised in support of the RNLI's 175th anniversary from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Well Dressed:
Well dressed: the Derbyshire custom of well dressing is alive and well in Monyash, near Bakewell. This lifeboat theme was discovered by reader, Ernest Bidwell, who also spotted a collecting box in aid of the RNLI nearby. The designs which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Langton County Primary School Malton North Yorkshire
Hush money: during one Monday in July Lang/on County Primary School, Ma/ton, North Yorkshire, must have been the quietest school in the country. A sponsored silence was held, with junior pupils being quiet for an hour while the infants kept... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs