LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Calshot Base from Coastguard Tower: City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade Alongside
Calshot base from Coastguard tower: City of Bristol and Joy and John Wade alongside.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Caleb
A telephone message was received at Margate, about 4.30 on the morning of the 6th August, stating that a barge was in distress off Herne Bay, and steps were at once taken to launch the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet. Whilst this was being...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 170, 181 and 194, the following launches on service were made during the months of March to May, 1966, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
Your Letters
Birkbeck Birthday Readers might be interested to hear that the lifeboat Edward Birkbeck, shown above on Deganwy beach, is rapidly approaching her 100th birthday and still in regular use.
The hull is an improved Norfolk and...
Category: Correspondence
Sir George Shee: An Appreciation
THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...
Category: Articles
Albin Ballad
Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...
Severe Weather Hits Yacht
Blyth's all-weather lifeboat, one of the victims of the hoax call on the previous page, is pictured towing a yacht to safety on 17 October last year after she had fallen foul of suddenly deteriorating weather.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stories of a Life-Boat Day
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors and ex-mayoresses on its life-boat day. Last autumn no fewer than six mayors and six mayoresses took part in the appeal. It also had among its collectors two...
Category: Articles
Mr Walter Jones a Retired Miner of Nottingham Was So Impressed By the Courage of Lifeboatmen He Saved a Little Each Week from His Pension to Leave to the Bridlington
Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Centenary Year
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
Category: Articles