LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Veteran Worker
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., when he celebrated his...
Category: Committee
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn Known to Everyone As Maudie Comes from a Seafaring Family and Has Given So Much Help to the Lifeboat Service Over Many Years Th
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
45 Years -- Still Singing
Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...
Category: Articles
At Port St.Mary Each Tuesday Throughout
At Port St Mary each Tuesday throughout the summer The Strolling Players II. to r.) Elizabeth Coombes, John Watterson and Alice Wilson, dressed in Manx costume, meet outside Crowe's 'Examiner' shop to entertain tourists, playing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1900
As the years roll on the interest of the people of Great Britain in maritime matters would seem to increase rather than to diminish, and we therefore feel that in drawing the attention of the public, and more especially that part of it...
Category: Articles
After the Agm of Newport Shropshire Branch the Honorary Treasurer a D Arnold Handed a Cheque for £1000 to Glyn Williams Dos (Wales) Also In the Picture Ar
After the AGM of Newport, Shropshire, branch, the honorary treasurer, A. D.
Arnold, handed a cheque for £1,000 to Glyn Williams, DOS (Wales). Also in the picture are Or A. R. Snead, branch chairman, and Mrs Y. M. Jones... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
Category: Articles
Feature Advancing a Great Cause
In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Nellor
Redcar, Yorkshire - At 4.5 p.m. on 20th June, 1967, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties south east of Saltscar buoy. The life-boat Aguila Wren was launched at 4.15 in a west north westerly gale and a moderate sea. The tide was...