LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ways and Means
Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.
I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...
Category: Donations
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...
Category: Articles
Christmas Cards and Calendars
A CHOICE of three different Christmas cards is provided by the Institution's selection of subjects this year, and in addition the usual pocket calendar is available.
The bronze medal service by the Coverack life-boat on...
Category: Advertisement
Daisy and Young Kenneth
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. — At midday on the 4th February there was a very heavy sea on the bar, and, as fishing boats could be seen making for harbour, the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 12.40 P.M., in case her help was...
Concerts and 'Copters
Phil Coulter and Ralph Me Tell share a joke with Paddy Gallagher, honorary secretary of Valentia lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And Then to Hospital
She was landed there and taken to hospital by ambulance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters and Membership
etter All letters featured here relate to the Inshore Lifeboat Centre (ILC) in Cowes, Isle of Wight, where all RNLI inshore lifeboats are built and maintained, as featured in the winter 2005/06 issue of the Lifeboat Our cover features...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boats and Shipwrecks
TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
Category: Correspondence
An Aeroplane
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...