LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Blackpool Life-Boat Band
THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Life-Boat Station
FOR the past seventy years there has been a Life-boat Station at Aberdeen, provided and maintained, not by the Institution, but by the Aberdeen Har- bour Commissioners.
The first Boat for the Station was procured by the...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
Above: Eight Volunteers Lost At Sea In 1947 Are Remembered In Stained Glass
Above: Eight volunteers lost at sea in 1947 are remembered in stained glass. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top: The Indomitable Keith (centre) And His Rescuers Are Safe At Last
Top: The indomitable Keith (centre) and his rescuers are safe at last. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Memories of a Jersey Crewman
In place of a "Focus" report on a life-boat station we are publishing the following contribution sent to us by a crewman of the Jersey life-boat, who wishes to remain anonymous. The article was received after "Focus on St....
Category: Articles
PARAGLIDER CRASH
ABERYSTWYTH | 15 MAY
A paraglider, fearing that his flying partner had crashed into some cliffs, called 999. The crew of RNLI Aberystwyth's inshore rescue boat launched quickly, soon joined by the larger Atlantic 85 lifeboat....
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
RIDLEY HOUSE, Felixstowe College, whose interest in the Life-boat Service is so great that it has formed a Ladies' Life-boat Guild within the House, has staged two competitions for the benefit of the Service. One is a general know- ledge...
Category: Donations
Fairey Marine
Marine FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of...
Category: Advertisement
Jane Cameron and Gleaner, and Mermaid
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 25th November, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was taken to Margate Roads in tow of the Ramsgate Harbour steam-tug Aid, during a strong N.N.E. gale and heavy sea, when she succeeded in saving the crew of 5 men from...