LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Celebrate!
In May we recognised our volunteers', supporters' and fundraisers' outstanding achievements at our Annual Presentation of Awards
HRH The Duke of Gloucester was the RNLI Guest of...
Category: Articles
TAX CHANGES and the INSTITUTION's FUNDS
% One little publicised effect of the reversion, after six years, to a 7s. 9d. in the £ standard rate of income tax, proposed by the present Chancellor, is that upon the revenues of bodies such as the R.N.L.I.
On...
Category: Donations
Grimsby Trawler Owners and the Life-Boat Service
FOR some time past it has been felt by the Institution that its Branch at Grimsby did not receive from the trawler owners the support which it bad reason to expect in view of the fact that Grimsby is the chief centre of the British Fishing...
Category: Articles
The Late Jacko Harris
The late Jacko Harris with just a few of the many thousands of school children he showed round Appledore lifeboat house in the last 14 years of his life.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Minesweeper H.M.S. Wave
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.30 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Wave, a minesweeper, was driving ashore at Porthminster beach, St. Ives Bay, and that the coastguard shore life-saving team had...
Sadikzade and Carmen
TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor...
The G.P.O. "Medico" Service
ONE of the lesser known services to which the R.N.L.I. makes a big con- tribution is the Post Office "Medico" service. The twelve G.P.O. coast radio stations, including the world-wide radio- telegraph station at Burnham-on-Sea,...
Category: Articles
(5)—Going to Work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall Rowing Out to Their Oyster Boat.
(5)—Going to work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall rowing out to their oyster boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Going quackers! the Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race,
Going quackers! The Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race, the proceeds of which will be split between the club and the RNLI. Each of the 700 ducks was sponsored at £1 a time and club member Mike Moore seems to be having... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs