LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent
The Duke of Ken!. President of the Institution, visited Whitby, Staithes, Redcar and Teesmoulh lifeboat stations on Wednesday July 22. Travelling in a helicopter of the Queen's Flight, he arrived at Whi/bv Abliev where he was received b ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For Quiet Nights
Four people in Leeds, two husbands and wives, sent the Instititution a pound in July 1941. It was a penny from each of them in gratitude for each night that they had had free from air-raids. They continued that thankoffering for every quiet...
Category: Articles
The Record Month by Month
1944 January . . 35 39 3 February . . 38 58 2 March . . 36 12 3 April . . 41 97 4 May. . . 31 16 4 June. . . 23 8 3 July . . . 35 8 3 August . . 40 93 7 September . . 31 13 3 October . . 45 66 5 November . . 51 52 6 December . . 49 252 7 - -...
Category: Annual Reports
H.M. Minesweeper Grenadier
JULY 31ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 5.45 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a minesweeper was approaching, and needed a doctor for a case of suspected appendicitis. A light northeast wind was blowing, and the...
Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned
SUPPORTED 80LXLY ET VOLONTAM OOKTEIBDnOHS.
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Agnes, schooner, of Llanelly .... 6 Albion, schooner, of Southampton 4 Aldebaran,...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies: Eastbourne and Islay
Naming Ceremonies EASTBOURNE, JULY 3 and ISLAY, JULY 28 Eastbourne IT SEEMED AS IF the whole population of Eastbourne, together with its holiday makers, had assembled round the lifeboat museum on the afternoon of Tuesday July 3. The occasion...
Category: Inaugurations
Bookshelf
The Story of the Barmouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris A recent addition to the series of comprehensive booklets from the prolific Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, this time chronicling the history of Barmouth's...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Sennen Cove Mersey class The Four Boys Eighteen years on from the visit of His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent to name the previous Sennen Cove lifeboat, history was repeated on Wednesday 22 April as the town, bedecked in flags and sunshine,...
Category: Inaugurations
Claudine, of Antwerp
BUCKIE. — The schooner Claudine, of Antwerp, bound to Ipswich, was observed about noon on the 20th January, when blowing very hard from S.W., with snow squalls, to be drifting to the eastward in a helpless and disabled state. The Life-boat...