LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Whitehills Life-Boat
The new Whitehills Life- boat, which was on passage from the building yard at Cowes to her Station, with the Northern District Inspector of Life-boats aboard, left Aberdeen at 8 A.M. on the 14th August. At 10.30 A.M. a message was received...
The 1952 Christmas Card In Black and White
From a drawing by John Hart (See page 406).
Category: Drawings
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
Methodist Sunday School Interest
THE lesson proposed for the senior department of Methodist Sunday schools for Sunday the 18th of August was devoted to the work of the Institution. The notes issued on the senior course gave a brief account of the organisation of the service...
Category: Articles
Signalman Edward Touzel, of the Jersey Station, Who Was Appointed In 1889 and Retired In 1929
Signalman Edward Touzel of the Jersey Station Who Was Appointed In 1889 and Retired In 1929 He Is Shown Wearing French and English Life-Saving Awards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1904
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. LOBD BRASSEY, ILC.B.
Seconded by the Eight Hon.
LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON.
1. That ...
Category: Meetings
The Open Motor Launch Y-Not
TOW FOR MOTOR LAUNCH DRIFTING ON TO LEE SHORE Falmouth, Cornwall. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht at anchor off Restronguet Point was dragging on to a lee...
While Trying to Help the Yachtsmen
While trying to help the yachtsmen the inflatable dinghy was capsized. The two lifeboatmen who had been manning her and one of Melfort's crew, swept down to Derby Haven breakwater, were successfully lifted from the sea by the crew of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 54Ft Arun Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
The 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. Stationed at Weymouth since 1976, she was the first of her class to have the hull built in glass reinforced plastic. The Arun is a 'fast afloat' boat, her twin Caterpillar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Lallow, of Cowes
By the death of Mrs. Lallow, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at West Cowes, on 8th March, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and enthusiastic honorary workers. Mrs. Lallow had been a Lifeboat worker for...
Category: Obituaries