LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One of the good folk
As he restrings his tenor guitar, Seth Lakeman can’t help but have a smile on his face. He’s backstage at a music festival, enjoying the calm before another whirlwind performance. A few days earlier, his new album was propelled into the top...
Category: Articles
Constanze (1)
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND HARWICH.
—The Honourable Artillery Company Lifeboat, stationed at Walton, was summoned by a telegram from the Sunk Light-ship, on the 4th December, stating that signals of distress were seen S.W. of...
Presentations at Appledore
The Service to the Lee Bay.
ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...
Category: Services
On Their Bikes!
On their bikes! A civic appeal started by Cllr George Parkinson, chairman of Wokingham district council in 1993 and pictured right, culminated in a sponsored cycle ride in April and brought the final total to £11,700 for his two-year... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lewes Arms
Lewis Carroll would have been surprised to see the Lewes Arms adaptation of Alice in Lewes Land. Licensee, Paul Stonehouse, alias Flopsie the White Rabbit, his wife Pauline, the Queen of Hearts, plus six members of Lewes and District... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...
Category: Committee
Special Life-Boat Funds
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES. K.G.
Vice-Patrons — His Grace the DUKE OF RUTLAND, K.G.
The Most Hon. the MABQUIS OF RIPON,...
Category: Donations
Early This Year the Failsworth Branch of the RNLI Held a Sponsored Knit Which Raised £122 People Were Asked to Knit Nine-Inch Squares to Make Into Blankets Altogeth
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RIB: The Rigid-hulled Inflatable Lifeboat
The RIB:
The Rigid-hulled Inflatable
Lifeboat
by David Sutcliffe
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is the unusual record of a very special college created from the vision of...
Category: Articles
A Boat
The Life- boat Henry, stationed at this place, per- formed her first errand of mercy on the 28th June. It appears that a boat for the use of the packet agent there had been brought over in tow of the Ilfra- combe steamer, and was cast off,...