LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e I i ne • S t o r m F o r c e Hitting the target In the summer edition of THE LIFEBOAT we asked whether it was possible to set our sights on obtaining that 200,000th active member by the end of 1991. We have...

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...

Lifeboatmen save people and livestock from flooded towns In the early hours of 18 October 1990 the towns of Ballycastle and nearby Cushendall in Co. Antrim were badly flooded, and Red Bay lifeboat station and two of the Crew Members at...

Coxswain Joseph Parkinson, of Lytham died on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 60. He was appointed coxswain in 1947 after serving as assistant motor mechanic of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat from 1931.

He was...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick person to Lochboisdale for conveyance to Glas- gow by air ambulance. At 8.45 the life-boat Lloyd's...

Left to right: Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, Second-Coxswain George Balls, of Cromer, ex-Coxswain William Fleming, of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Mrs. Robert Pattern, of Runswick, Acting-Coxswain Harry Barrett, of St. Mary's,... - View image in PDF

AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...

NO NOISE - NO POISON - NO HARM TO ANIMALS Keep Animal Pests off Your Prope Just place the Sonic Pest Repeller in your garden and keep foxes, dogs, cats, rats, rodents, deer and other pesky animal pests away with no noise and no harm to the...