LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Esso London
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.35 p.m. on I5th December, 1965, a doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the tanker Esso London and asked if the life-boat would convey a doctor to the ship, which was heading...
A Sponsored 25-Hour Game of Crib Played By Brighton Policemen Sgt Peter Dear Pcs Dave Rowland Harold Green Kim Wood Roger Charles and Wpc Sue Boug
A sponsored 25-hour game of crib played by Brighton policemen. Sgt. Peter dear, PCs Dave Rowland.
Harold Green, Kim Wood.
Roger Charles and WPC Sue Bought en, raised £1,058 for Brighton's new ILB... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Globe
St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...
Penguin
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...
Invermore, of Dublin (3)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Barranquilla
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...
Above: Poster By Peter Williams Aged 6 of Rugeley Staffs (7 Years and Under); Left: Poster
Above: Poster by Peter Williams, aged 6, of Rugeley, Staffs. (7 years and under); left: Poster by Simon Turner, aged 11, of Horley, Surrey (11 years and over)..
Category: Drawings
Keeping It In the Family
The RNLI has a long history of family involvement. It is not unusual for several generations of one family to volunteer and many stations see a handful of names turn up time and again in the station history. Happily this tradition does not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eric Ward Coxswain of the St.Ives Lifeboat
Eric Ward, Coxswain of the St Ives lifeboat pictured with one of his paintings on display at a London gallery. - View image in PDF
Eric, who only took up painting seriously two years ago was appointed Coxswain in May 1989.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Ship
JUNE 22ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
The life-boat had put out at the request of the naval authorities to bring ashore an injured man from one of H.M. ships, and a doctor who had been put aboard by seaplane, but the ship could...