LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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The Advent of the Boat Show Means Eleven Happy Days of Reunions With Old and Introduction to New Friends of the Lifeboat Service Who Come to the Rnli Stand Cilia Black
The advent of the Boat Show means eleven happy days of reunions with old and introduction to new friends of the lifeboat service who come to the RNLI stand. Cilia Black was one of many welcome visitors, and to show her over Silver Jubilee... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Superintendent at the Depot
COMMANDER J. M. UPTON, M.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who has been Super- intendent of the Life-boat Depot since 1941, has retired and has been suc- ceeded by Commander H. L. Wheeler, R.N.
Commander Upton, who was born at Petworth...
Category: Committee
Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the Rnli (Left) and the Managing Director of Laing's Trevor Berry
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, (left) and the managing director of Laing's, Trevor Berry, lay the highest section of concrete to mark the topping-out of the RNLI's new headquarters building. (Photo Southern Newspapers).<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Barrel Organ Returns
This organ came out of retirement for Life-boat Day at Richmond, Surrey. Whether or not the music was the cause, the day collected £134 compared with £99 in 1948.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cobra, of London
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.20 P.M. on the 13th July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht about two miles S.E. of the look-out appeared to be flying an ensign upsidedown, thus making a signal of distress.
A...
Vic Derham Receives A Meritorious Award From The Mayor Of Christchurch In Recognition Of His Voluntary Work In The Town
Vic Derham receives a Meritorious Award from the Mayor of Christchurch in recognition of his voluntary work in the town. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Whaler Paul
Dover, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1952, the whaler Paul, of Dover, with three boys from Dover College on board, was blown out of the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 3.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
The New Stromness Life-Boat at Guernsey
Left to right: Commander Hairier, Mr. Randell (at the wheel). Commander Drury, the Lieuten nt-Governor. the Bailiff of Guernsey, and Mr. Frampton. In front: Mr. Small.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Marsworth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...