LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Someone from the Vale of Glamorgan telephoned the Cardiff office to ask for a collecting box for her daughter's birthday party. She and her husband were worried by the fashion that expects bigger and bigger presents from guests invited...
Category: Donations
Opposite Top: Phyl Cleare With Her Late Husband Jack at the Naming Ceremony of Phyl Clare In 1990
Opposite top: Phyl Cleare with her late husband Jack at the naming ceremony of Phyl Clare in 1990. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret, of Skibbereen
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of Courtmacsherry Bay. A whole north-west gale was...
When the Willie Woodhave Public House was Demolished During the Redevelopment of South Shields Market Place this Fine Painted Window of the 18th-century Life-Boat Designer, William Woodhave, was Saved and Placed in South Shields Museum
When the Willie Woodhave public house was demolished during the redevelopment of South Shields market place this fine painted win- dow of the 18th-century life-boat designer, William Woodhave, was saved and placed in South Shields... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maid of Erin
On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...
Lucy, of Antwep
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...
The Eastbourne Lifeboat Jane Holland
The Eastbourne lifeboat Jane Hollandwas one of several RNLI boats involved in the Dunkirk evacuation. She was later found, adrift and badly damaged, and is pictured under repair. Mark Child of Collectors' Books would like to locate more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
I Had Loads Of Fun Taking Photos Of Paddington While On Holiday In Italy
Dear Editor I had loads of fun taking photos of Paddington while on holiday in Italy – although others on the beach thought me a little ‘eccentric’ to say the least. Best regards Mick Parker Competition Winner. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Talbot-Cadow, of Carlisle
MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...
Category: Obituaries
The Sailing Boat Nelly
The motor life-boat Elliot Galer was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 1st August, as the coastguard had tele- phoned that the sailing boat Nelly, of Leith, with one man on board, had capsized and sunk two miles south of Seaham, and two miles...