LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How to Save a Helicopter the Lyme Regis Way
AFTER a fortnight of incessant rain, the weather changed for the better, and on 17th July, 1972, everything seemed set fair for a successful lifeboat week. The piece de resistance was to be a display by a Royal Navy helicopter from...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obvene.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Doable legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824.
Incorporated 1860. Victoria, Patroness."...
Category: Medals
Naming Ceremonies In Scotland
Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.
They are both gifts from Glasgow.
St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Susilla
High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
Category: Articles
A Motor Life-Boat Achievement
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
Category: Services
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 in the night of the 29th of November, 1949, a Canisbay doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take him to Stroma Island to attend an injured man, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him. A...
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Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat Small Ads
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Category: Advertisement
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence