LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Schools for Sailors. Second Article
IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...
Category: Articles
'Order, Order!'
Left to right: Girvan Lifeboat Operations Manager Colin McKechnie, Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin MP and Coxswain Roddy Leitch Photo: Carrie* Gazette. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Famous Partnership of Dulcie Gray (Centre) and Michael Dennison (R)
The famous partnership of Dulcie Gray (centre) and Michael Dennison (r) performed an anthology based on their careers and writings before an audience at Hazlewood Castle, North Yorkshire, last July. It is something they do every other year... - View image in PDF
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Shell Duck
Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.48 a.m. on 2nd June, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Shell Duck had been seen by a helicopter apparently broken down surrounded by oil three miles south west of Newarp...
Tarka II
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 9 p.m. on 25th May, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted six to eight miles south south west of Shoreham. At 9.7 the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Mr J P W Mallalieu MP Junior Minister Board of Trade Visited the Walton Life-Boat Station and the Harwich Life-Boat on 22Nd February 1968
Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., Junior Minister, Board of Trade, visited the Walton life-boat station and the Harwich life-boat on 22nd February, 1968. Here he is talking to Coxswain-Mechanic P. Burwood of the 44-foot steel life-boat Margaret... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IBELAND. -— The Life-boat placed here some years since having become unfit for further service has been replaced by the Institution—a fine new sailing boat of the self-righting type having, with the full concurrence of the Local...
Category: Articles
Prince Albert Convalescent Home, Worthing. Some of the Patients After Taking Part In the Collection at the Practice Launch of the Life-Boat
Prince Albert Convalescent Home Worthing Some of the Patients After Taking Part In The Collection at The Practice Launch of the Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Children Representing the 12 Schools
Children representing the 12 schools involved in the Swim for Fun Gala day show off their certificates and prizes. Halesowen branch organised the event at Stourbridge's indoor and outdoor pools one Sunday last July. Jean Hadley (far... - View image in PDF
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Rescue Among the Lobster Pots
A LETTER of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent, life-boat for the part they played in saving two...
Category: Services