LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Withdrawn English Coinage Can Mean Revenue for the Life-Boat Service the Coins Including Some Silver Date from Left to Right (Top) 194419411939 18761898 1940 1
Withdrawn English coinage can mean revenue for the life-boat service. The coins, including some silver, date from left to right (top) 1944,1941,1939, 1876,1898, 1940, 1914 and 1940. The 1940 half-crown is a good specimen.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
East Reading District Scout Council Organised 'Operation Sealion' a Sponsored Paddle Against the Clock from Bristol to Reading Along the Kennet and Avon Canal 120 S
East Reading District Scout Council organised 'Operation Sealion', a sponsored paddle against the clock from Bristol to Reading, along the Kennet and Avon Canal. 120 Scouts, in relays, got their 12' aluminium boat along the 90... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent Accompanied By the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (Right) Talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson
His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent accompanied by the Institution's Director, Brian Miles (right) talks to RNLI Chief Technical Officer David Hudson (left) before going afloat in the prototype Trent and Severn class lifeboats during his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies In England
FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.
Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...
Category: Inaugurations
100 Years Ago. Two Gold Medal Services on the Same Day
THE brig Aurora, coal laden, was wrecked near the mouth of the Tees, on the night of the 14th August, 1829, in a heavy gale and tremendous sea ; and the crew, consisting of ten persons, were saved by the intrepid conduct of Lieutenant Pym, R...
Category: Medals
On May 20, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the RNLI stand at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, and spoke with (I. to r.) Coxswain Albert Bird, Second Coxswain Charles Begg and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack. photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen Journals
On May 20, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the RNLI stand at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, and spoke with (I. to r.) Coxswain Albert Bird, Second Coxswain Charles Begg and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack. photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
July
JULY 11TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Category: Services
Foreign Decorations for British Life-Boatmen
Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.
Mowat and the Crew of the...
Category: Awards
At a Coffee Evening Held to Mark the Retirement of Erdington
At a coffee evening held to mark the retirement of Erdington, Birmingham, branch honorary treasurer Mr H. Higton, seen here (I.) shaking hands with chairman Reginald Wood, £60 was raised; this brought the branch's takings to a very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs