LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
Category: Awards
(Below) Later Walked Over to the Dais to Name the New Boat Ann Ritchie
(Below) . . . later walked over to the dais to name the new boat Ann Ritchie.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Falmouth November 15 1987:
FAI.MOUTH, NOVEMBER 15, 1987: harnessed into a helicopter strop, WEM J R Stevenson is lowered gently from the boat davit of his ship HMS Challenger to the deck of Falmouth's 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant after... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sam Baxter Mbe,
MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978 and deputy launching authority from 1978 to 1991,...
Category: Obituaries
Opening the Box
Cashing up are Richard Wright /centre! with (from left) Cyril, Jean and Neil Tysall and FtNLI area organiser, James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
Photo: Birmingham Post and Mail. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dory Shetlander I
Walmer, Kent. At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small blue yacht had capsized off the Royal Marines' rifle range. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 32)...
The S.S. Pibroch
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 7.10 in the evening of the 9th of March, 1948, the Southend coastguard reported a vessel in the Sound of Sanda burning a red light or flare, and the motor life- boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.20 in a...
Her Grace Lavinia Duchess of Norfolk Patron of Linlehampton Branch Presented a Silver Statuette to Mr R J C Richards a Former Treasurer of the Branch During Li
Her Grace Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk.
patron of Linlehampton branch, presented a silver statuette to Mr R. J. C. Richards, a former treasurer of the branch, during Littlehampton's lifeboat ball last autumn. With them... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gale of the 19th May, 1863
THE GALE OF THE 19th MAY, 1863.
To THE EDITOR.—SIR,—I am desirous to utilize this gale by a few words for future benefit.
No winds are more difficult to foretell accurately than north-easterly, because...
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