LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
General Index
ANNUAL REPORT . . . 33 " Life-boat Sunday " Collections . 144 Officers of the Institution . . 40 Balance Sheet . . . 48 life-boats, Descriptions of . . 116 Resolutions at Annual Meeting . 39 Box Collections . . . 146 Life-boats and...
Category: Index
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats In 1939
ENGLAND.
ELEVEN naming ceremonies of motor life-boats were held during 1939, seven in England, three in Scotland and one in Wales. Three other ceremonies, one in England, and two in Ireland, were cancelled owing to the...
Category: Inaugurations
A Lifeboat Queen : 16-Year-Old Jane Wilson Was Crowned By Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough Ladies' Guild Gala In July With Her Are Three of Her Attendants Pat Wilkins
A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
April (1)
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
Category: Services
Menacing Goodwins By Arthur Gaunt
DESPITE their name, there's nothing good about the Goodwin Sands, which comprises three hook-shaped banks off England's south east coast. For centuries these sandbars have been known to seamen as 'The Ship Swallowers', and it...
Category: Articles
St.Ives Lions Club Has Chosen As Its Special Project for 1977 the Funding of a Replacement Ilb for the Lifeboat Station; Club Members With Lifeboatmen and Branch Offici
St Ives Lions Club has chosen as its special project for 1977 the funding of a replacement ILB for the lifeboat station; club members with lifeboatmen and branch officials are already making slipway collections, teddy bears are being raffled... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Record Year
THE work of the Life-boat Service does not grow less. It is actually increasing.
In spite of all that is being done, by new inventions, to make travel by sea safer as well as more comfortable, 146 more calls were made for...
Category: Articles
At Tenby Branch's Agm the Crew Presented a Cheque for £1000 Towards the Cost of An Ilb Boathouse the Money Was Raised With Football Matches a Dance and a Spons
At Tenby branch's AGM the crew presented a cheque for £1,000 towards the cost of an ILB boathouse. The money was raised with football matches, a dance and a sponsored tow of the ILB on her launching trolley to Pembroke Dock and back... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Willowpool (2)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles N.E...