LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of Accounts for 1978
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the National Film Theatre, London, will be published in the autumn issue of THE...
Category: Accounts
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 January and February 1972
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Baltimore, Co. Cork Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Berwick-upon-Tweed,...
Category: Services
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN LEWIS BENJAMIN HARRISON has been coxswain of Cromer No. 2 lifeboat since ist October, 1953. He joined the crew of No. 2 life-boat in 1931, and served as second coxswain of No. i life-boat for six years, from 1947 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Franklin Mint Limited,
THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE Engraved bolster, selectively plated with 22 carat gold, features an intricate portrayal ol the rainbow trout.
Issued in a Collector's Edition.
Handsomely...
Category: Advertisement
Presentation of Medal
Lord Chesham, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, acting on behalf of the Queen, presented the British Empire Medal to Coxswain Sidney Cann, of Appledore, at the Ministry of Transport on yth...
Category: Medals
People and Places
Birthday Honours The following have been honoured by Her Majesty The Queen in the recent Birthday Honours: For services to the RNLI QBE Dr Bill Guild - Life Vice President of the Committee of Management and an Honorary Life Governor (former...
Category: Articles
Adelaide ,of Malahide
The Life-boat on this station went out on the 31stOctober, during a fresh gale from the E., and saved the crew of 5 men of the schooner Adelaide, of Malahide,...
Ceremonies
Barra Island Arun class Ann Lewis Fraser Barra Island lies at the southern tip of the Western Isles, and the community of Castle Bay is the home of the lifeboat and also the terminal for the ferry which, with the daily air flight, is the...
Category: Inaugurations
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, of Cardigan
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At the request of the crew, the boat on this station has been replaced by a new self-righting Life- boat, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 8 oars double-banked. A new transport- ing-carriage was sent with the boat....
Category: Articles