LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr Walter Jones a Retired Miner of Nottingham Was So Impressed By the Courage of Lifeboatmen He Saved a Little Each Week from His Pension to Leave to the Bridlington
Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pupils of the Marlpool First School
Pupils of The Marlpool First School in Kidderminster held a lifeboat thanksgiving service in October which raised £329. The children were all involved in the preparations for the service, including building this magnificent model Brede... - View image in PDF
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New Vice-Presidents of the Guild
THE following ladies have accepted an invitation from the Committee of Management to become Vice-Presidents of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild :—The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, D.B.E., the Duchess of Montrose, and the Lady Magdalene...
Category: Articles
Two Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE Hastings motor life-boat was one of the thirty-two life-boats which were launched during the exceptional gales at the end of May and the begin- ning of June, and was out for five hours hi the worst weather conditions she had ever...
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The Bulgarian Motor Vessel Vassil Levsky
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF BULGARIAN SHIP Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 17th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Bulgarian motor vessel Vassil Levsky of Varna had a sick man on board who needed a...
Suspension of the Life-Boat Journal.
Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...
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Award to the Women Launchers of Dungeness
ON the 8th of October a whole gale was blowing at Dungeness, Kent, from South by East, a very heavy sea was running and it was raining very heavily.
A London barge, the Shamrock, bound with a cargo to the Isle of Wight,...
Category: Awards
Life-boat Collector Miss Myrtle Graham, of Belfast, Receiving her Quota of Flags from Mr. Gerald Murphy (right) and Mr. Gerald Lenaghan, Members of the Crew of the Newcastle (Ireland) Life-Boat, in the Grounds of the City Hall, Belfast
Life-boat collector Miss Myrtle Graham, of Belfast, receiving her quota of flags from Mr. Gerald Murphy (right) and Mr.
Gerald Lenaghan, members of the crew of the Newcastle (Ireland) lifeboat, in the grounds of the City... - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 3RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. Two men had been reported in difficulties near some rocks, but nothing was found and it was presumed that porpoises had been mistaken for men. - Rewards, £6 3s..
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
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