LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Finnish Award for RNLI Director
Brian Miles, displaying his newly presented award, gives thanks to the President of Finland and distinguished guests during his speech.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M. Arnus
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
Membership News
Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Apologies! You may have been one of several members who experienced strange happenings which coincided with the delivery of your Autumn journal, and unreserved apologies are due to all...
Category: Articles
Catch Them Young!
Catch them young! Two-and-a-half year old John Wingfield is the youngest fund raising helper of Brighton branch. He could not resist dressing up as a lifeboat in a competition at the local infants school in Patcham.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canvassing Support
Mr Martin Harris, a well known artist whose works sell in London galleries for upwards of £1,000, is pictured with the painting that he generously donated to Sheerness lifeboat station at their last dance. The painting raised £575... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May5, JunSJul 12,Aug3,11,17 D-536:May 5,Jun 3,13,19,24, Jul 3,10,11,13,Aug 3,6 ABERDOVEY B-758:May 22,Jun 19, Jul 16(x3),18(x2),24,27,31 B-767:Aug 9,15,16,17,20(x2) ABERSOCH B-79&May 28,Jun 3,4,24, Jul 10,15,24,27...
Category: Services
Corallo and Nopal Branco (1)
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branca, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
House-To-House Collections
THE value of the house-to-house collection is well known to experienced Life-boat workers, as one of the simplest, most economical, and most effective methods of appeal. It is used with particular success in the North of England. When the...
Category: Articles
Fiveie
Dover, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, a local boatman reported that a motor boat was in difficulties off St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.20 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings with the second...
Tasty Cake
Mr Grant Hodgkinson of Grant's Sandwich Bar in Holmes Chapel presented the local committee with a cake designed in the shape of a lifeboat, which was to be first prize in the Christmas raffle.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs