LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Southampton Boat Show September 13 to 18 Got Away to a Good Start on the First Day With the Presentation By Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of Three Cheques: £500 From
Southampton Boat Show, September 13 to 18, got away to a good start on the first day with the presentation by Shaw Taylor to Sir Alec Rose of three cheques: £500 from Cobramold Ltd, to mark the building of the 2,000th Leisure class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Litchfield Ladies' Guild Organised Their Tenth Annual Fork Luncheon In the Spring Cooking Preparing and Serving All the Food Themselves Held As Usual In the Guildhall I
Litchfield ladies' guild organised their tenth annual fork luncheon in the spring, cooking, preparing and serving all the food themselves. Held, as usual, in the Guildhall it was a sell out, some 250 people attending; the profit was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ling and Cabin Cruiser Dorella
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
May
Launches 31 Lives rescued 16 MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf...
Category: Services
Searcher
Amphibious rescue Eastbourne - South East Division The Director of the RNLI has sent a letter of appreciation to two Eastbourne brothers after an unusual shore-boat service in which their amphibious vehicle helped a fishing boat, while...
Feature: Lifeboat Lottery
The spring 2004 Lifeboat Lottery was the highest earning RNLI lottery ever, raising over £381,000 - the equivalent of two inshore lifeboats, a hovercraft and the training of their crews. Congratulations go to first prize winners Mr and...
Category: Articles
Spirit
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
Three Station Secretaries
THE Institution has recently lost three very distinguished secretaries of life- boat stations, for whose long services it is very grateful.
Mr. Alexander Robertson, of Eastbourne Mr. Alexander Robertson, of East- bourne,...
Category: Obituaries
AEGEAN SUPPORT
The narrow channels between Turkey and Greece have been busy over the past year, as desperate people attempt to cross the Aegean into Europe. More than 700 are believed to have drowned. How can the RNLI help?
Just 4 miles...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Clavering
SEATON CAREW and HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.—A terrible disaster, involving the loss of several lives, mostly Lascars, took place on the 31st January at the mouth of the River Tees. The s.s. Clavering, of London, a large vessel of upwards of 3,300...