LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Are Life-Boat Days a Nuisance?
THE thousands who collect for the Institution on life-boat days and who are sometimes told by those to whom they appeal that " these flag days are a perfect nuisance " may find a useful reply in the following letter, which appeared...
Category: Articles
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven
Mr. J. J. Lines, of Newhaven, who died on 5th February, 1938, had retired from the honorary secretaryship of the Newhaven station in 1936. He had then been its honorary secretary for thirty-five years. Mr. Lines was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
The Oil Rig Sea Gem (2)
Wells, Norfolk. On 29th December, 1965, the life-boat Tom Neathercoat was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem. A full account of this service appears on page 63..
The Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund Has Already Donated 38 Lifeboats to the Institution and Has Started to Contribute Towards a 39Th and Miss Connie H Henry Who Has Recently Taken
The Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund has already donated 38 lifeboats to the Institution and has started to contribute towards a 39th, and Miss Connie H.
Henry, who has recently taken over as honorary secretary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Easter Sunday the Eight Young Ladies Shown Here, Dressed In R.N.L.I. Jerseys and Red Mini-Skirts, Walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner
On Easter Sunday the eight young ladies shown here, dressed in R.N.L.I.
jerseys and red mini-skirts, walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner— a distance of 20 miles—circumnavigating the city and West End. Organisations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ilb Launches on Service During the Months September October and November 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Broughty Ferry, Angus...
Category: Services
Mary Woods of Test Branch
How many teddy bears does it take to buy a Neil Robertson stretcher? One hundred! Mary Woods of Test branch knitted and sold 100 teddies and paid for the stretcher now being used at Beaumaris lifeboat station. One obviously satisfied... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Druide, of Aberystwith
on 9th Oct., 1860, saved 5 men from the schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth..
Village Maid, of Fleetwood
on 10th Feb. saved 4 men from the schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood..