LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Princess Elizabeth
IN 1947 the Princess Elizabeth sent the Institution £180, the balance of her wedding present from Kimberley.
At the beginning of 1948 her wedding dress was displayed in Edinburgh.
The Lord Provost...
Category: Donations
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
Category: Awards
An Aeroplane (5)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
A Vessel (33)
OCTOBER 22ND. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. A vessel was reported to have been blown up S.E. of Dursey Head, and a ship’s boat to have left the wreck, but nothing could be found. People on shore had seen the vessel sink, and it...
Hoylake Life-Boat and An IRB Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee
Hoylake Life-Boat and An Irb Seen Recently When Trials Were Taking Place on the River Dee. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
Sir CHARLES WILSON, LL.D., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of the dis- tinguished services which he has rendered for very many years past, first as Honorary Secretary of the Leeds Life-boat...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Margareta
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
With John Atterton Acting Director Looking on Harry H Corbel! Hands Mrs Teresa Reiley of Urchfont Wiltshire the Keys of the Saab 99 Combi Coupe Car She Won In
With John Atterton, acting director, looking on, Harry H. Corbel! hands Mrs Teresa Reiley of Urchfont, Wiltshire, the keys of the Saab 99 Combi Coupe car she won in the Southern District 1978 competition which raised £10,000 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE history of the Institution is now being written, and will be published in the autumn of 1923. The Secretary will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Margareta (1)
Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...