LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
William Gammon—Manchester & District XXX
Naming the new life-boat at The Mumbles. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£1,725 from Welsh Students
IN 1947 the students of the Aberystwyth University College gave the Institution £325 from the proceeds of their annual "Rag-Week." This year the whole week was held on behalf of the Life-boat Service, and raised £1,400....
Category: Donations
Christmas Gifts By Life-Boat
AT Christmas the Margate life boat took out the Mayor of Margate with gifts for the men on the Tongue Lightship, and the Eastbourne life-boat took out the Mayor of Eastbourne with gifts for the men on the Royal Sovereign...
Category: Donations
Case of Rum Awarded to Holyhead Crew
THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew who carried out the longest continuous service during the winter months of 1953-54. The award was given to the Holyhead crew for the...
Category: Awards
Lieut.-Colonel Charles Earle, D.S.O., O.B.E.
The newly appointed Secretary of the Institution. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stirling Whorlow, Esq.
The newly appointed Secretary of the Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wow!
Twelve months after its opening by HM The Queen, The Lifeboat College has been awarded 'Medium-sized project of the year' at the 2005 Quality in Construction Awards. The RNLI development came top in a shortlist of four projects in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors from Abroad
A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.
C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...
Category: Articles
Die Manten (1)
The Die Manten afterwards drove ashore some miles to the southward of Montrose, and on the wreck being observed among the breakers on the 25th March the AdmiralFitzroy Life-boat stationed at Anstruther put off and found there was only one...