LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Ann Banner Mbe,
Mrs Ann Banner MBE, founder chairman of Billingham ladies guild.
Appointed chairman in 1980, she took over the dual role of chairman/treasurer in 1990. When the guild closed in 1996 Mrs Banner supported the Tees Endeavour...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Topsy Levan Honorary Secretary of Kew Branch Clad In Oilskins and Armed With a Loudhailer Collects for the Rnli at the Foot of Kew Pier Where Countless Holiday Ma
Mrs Topsy Levan, honorary secretary of Kew branch, clad in oilskins and armed with a loudhailer, collects for the RNLI at the foot of Kew Pier, where countless holiday makers disembark after trips up the Thames. Last summer she raised more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Ashby
At 4.45 A.M. on the9th February, a telephone message was received from Collieston, stating that a vessel was ashore on Forvie Sands, about two miles to the north of Newburgh. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 19 were immediately...
Messenger
SCILLY.—During the night of the 27th October the wind blew a very heavy gale from the W.S.W., and early on the morning of the 28th signals of distress were observed from the direction of Trescoe.
Thp Henry Dundas Life-boat...
Pack of Cards
Dover, Kent. At 5.27 on the afternoon of the 4th September, 1961. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Pack of Cards was drift- ing three miles west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her...
Mary Taylor of Padstow
Mary Taylor of Padstow is a prolific fund raiser. During the financial year ending September 1985 she raised a magnificent £1,250—all the more remarkable when you find out that she makes all the items she sells herself. Throughout the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Lifeboat Fund's 41St.Lifeboat, the Princess Royal
Above: The Lifeboat Fund's 4 7sr lifeboat, The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41), is put through her paces at St Ives in Cornwall. - View image in PDF
Pholo floyal Bank ol Scotland / flick Tom Im son. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Crew's Gift to the Institution
THE Cresswell Life-boat is taking part in a procession in the neighbouring town of Ashington during August in aid of the Institution. It has been possible to arrange this without incurring any expense, as not only has the coal company which...
Category: Articles
Fluminense, of London
NOVEMBER 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 9.3 in the morning the Sandgate coastguard reported a motor yacht in distress two and a half miles south-south-west of Dungeness Lighthouse. A fresh north-easterly breeze was blowing,...
The Sailing Boat Tablet and Red Barrel
OWNER MADE DONATION Sheringham, Norfolk. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was returning to her station from a publicity launch to Blakeney on Sunday the i5th August, 1965, when at 12.10 the small sailing boat Tablet was seen...