LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1939
" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
The new Troon life-boat, James and Barbara Aitken, was named by Her Grace Mary, Duchess of Montrose, an honorary life governor of the Institution and president of the Isle of Arran branch, on the 9th of July, 1955. The cost of this life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Padstow Lifeboat
Some £19,000 was raised this year to fund Padstow lifeboat station's new lift (see page 290). Of that amount, £9,850 was raised by a summer raffle of a tablecloth hand embroidered by Mrs Mary Taylor, seen here with Rear Admiral... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Limits
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Work
THE following account of a shipwreck on our coast, and a gallant rescue by a Life-boat, has been taken from a new work,' Under one Hoof/ * by Mr. JAMBS PAYN, the well-known author, whose genius is determined to leave some marks on our...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for Volunteer of 69.
The Institution has awarded its bronze medal to Captain James Winter, harbour master of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, who 'is 69 years old, for his gallantry in taking command of the life-boat, when the coxswain was ill, and rescuing the...
Category: Articles
"Life-Boat Saturday" Help! Help!
ERE long around our island home Tempestuous winds shall blow; Ships safe to-day, far, far away May then to pieces go.
Would yon one seaman should perish, On rock or Goodwin Sand, For lack of a "Royal" Life-boat,...
Category: Poetry
Norwegian Medals
THE Norwegian Government has awarded silver medals and diplomas to Mr. E. Selby Davidson, honorary secretary of the Tynemouth station, Coxswain George Lisle, W. Johnson, the motor mechanic, and Bartholomew Taylor, a member of the crew, for...
Category: Medals
1. Three of the seven ex-lifeboats on passage to Dunkirk
1. Three of the seven ex-lifeboats on passage to Dunkirk - from front to rear: Dowager, Tyne Star and Stenoa.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Far Left) Becky Rose
... and the staff enjoy themselves too! (far left) Becky Rose from Fundraising Supporter Services and her friend Jo Paterson sell lottery tickets. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs