LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From a Fancy-Dress Dance at Sea
AT a fancy-dress dance held on board the T.S.S. Voltaire, of Messrs. Lamport and Holt, during a cruise, one of the passengers appeared as a life-boatman.He borrowed from the purser the life-boat collecting box which is always on board the...
Category: Donations
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1928
Presentation of Prizes in the London District.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the llth March, the Mayor of Westminster (Major V. B. Rogers, D.S.O., M.C.) presided at the Presentation of the Prizes won in the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
When Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales visited Grimsby in July she was presented with a miniature model of Humbers's 54ft Arun lifeboat City of Bradford IV by the Mayor, Councillor Anthony Rouse. The model was made by Brian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Albert Bird (R) Aberdeen Entertains Skipper John Thomas Former Assistant Mechanic at Dungeness and the Man Who Saved His Life When Dungeness Lifeboat R
Coxswain Albert Bird (r.), Aberdeen, entertains Skipper John Thomas, former assistant mechanic at Dungeness and the man who saved his life when Dungeness lifeboat rescued six men from Teeswood in the great Channel gale of 1956; a service for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet (1)
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.30 a.m.
on 19th October, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Dowsing lightvessel required to be taken ashore for medical treatment. As there was no urgency it was decided to...
Coxswain John Mclean
COXSWAIN JOHN McLEAN, of Peter- head, died on the 9th of January, 1956, at the age of 62. He was the holder of the gold medal, the highest award for gallantry which the Insti- tution can confer. He won this award for services in three days...
Category: Obituaries
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli (From Page 131)
(from page 131) later as a basis for a 'newsletter' to bring all honorary medical advisers up to date with current problems. The subjects have included such items as lifelines, retrieving casualties from the water, communications and...
Category: Articles
Falmouth
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Express Annie Brooks and Mary Ann
APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on...