LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Right Spirit
OVERHEARD in the street on Cromer Life-boat Day : " Have you got plenty of coppers ? Because to every along." we shall have to give flag-seller who comes.
Category: Donations
Sixteen Years After
GRATITUDE is not always short-lived.
This letter comes from Warwickshire : " Once again on behalf of myself and family I have pleasure in sending you a cheque value £l 7s. 6d. as a small donation towards the fund...
Category: Correspondence
Electrical Communication Between Lighthouses and Light-Vessels and the Shore
THE following is a copy of a placard circulated in November last by the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, calling attention to an important concession to shipowners and others, whereby they are allowed on occasions of shipping casualties...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Breadwinner, Orient and Dolly Graham (1)
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
Brighton Naming
Radio and television commentator Brian Johnston and his wife visited Brighton to name the local inshore life-boat the St. Marylebone Dolphin. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the St.
Marylebone life-boat branch which raised the...
Category: Inaugurations
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...
Category: Articles
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Sea Fever
Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...
Safely home
Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...
Category: Articles
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services