LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
While fourteen of' the fishing-cobles belonging to the port were out fishing on the morning of the 2nd December a strong S. gale suddenly sprang up and blew with great violence. The boats at once made for home, but as their lauding was...
Ferry Founders
Blackpool beach gained a startling new attraction when the cargo ferry Riverdance developed a list and started to drift. All-weather lifeboats from Fleetwood and Lytham St Annes were launched on 31 January in force 10 winds, arriving on...
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Hoylake, Cheshire.—30th July, 1939.
A red flare had been reported by a fisherman, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Rewards, £15 14*. 6d..
Cover Picture
by Maggie Murray/Format The five medallists arrive for a photocall at Tower Pier, on the Thames, before the Presentation of Awards at the Royal Festival Hall on 14 May 1991.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Trawler
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—10th January. A steam trawler had been reported to be dragging her anchor, but was not in need of help.—Rewards, Caister, £43 7s. 6d.; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, £28...
At Her Righting Trial the Fast Slipway Boat Prototype City of London 'Capsized' By Crane Righted In Just Five Seconds Photographs By Courtesy of Brian Manhy
At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Hale 84 Years Old and Almost Blind Nevertheless Made This Lovely Crochet Bedspread of 360 Separate Squares Raffled at a Small Function It Raised £50 for Ware
Mrs Hale, 84 years old and almost blind, nevertheless made this lovely crochet bedspread of 360 separate squares. Raffled at a small function it raised £50 for Ware branch.
With Mrs Hale is Pop David, aged 87, a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
£ s. d.
40 14 0 _ _I H Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
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Category: Accounts
Saga
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Category: Advertisement
Mrs. Ferris Tozer, Hon. Secretary of the Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
Category: Obituaries