LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Skeleton
All that remained of the Olive a few days later.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting from Page 196
Annual General Meeting from page 196 pients. Miss N. Robertson, were present to receive their awards: Honorary Life Governor Dr W. J. Guild, BSC pho A committee member of Edinburgh brunch since 1953 and a member of the Executive Committee of...
Category: Meetings
A Giant Dummy Cheque for £25000 Towards a Replacement Lifeboat at Sheringham Came from the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Commander Ralph Swann a Member
A giant dummy cheque for £25,000 towards a replacement lifeboat at Sheringham came from the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. Commander Ralph Swann, a member and former Chairman of the Committee of Management (/.). accepted the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Castle Museum York
The Castle Museum, York, has a section called 'Kirkgate' which contains a reconstructed nineteenth century street complete with shops of that era. In November the museum kindly allowed local RNLI supporters to hold a fashion soiree... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishermen rescued
30 January: Teignmouth lifeboat rescued five fishermen from a capsized trawler near the mouth of the River Teign. Volunteer Press Officer Tony Watson says: ‘This just shows that accidents can happen, even to...
Category: Articles
Her Majesty Queen Mary
BY the death of Her Majesty Queen Mary on the 24th of March, 1953, the Life-boat Service lost one of its three Royal Patrons. Queen Mary was the third of the five queens—Queen Vic- toria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (now the...
Category: Obituaries
Other IRB Launches
Ramsgate, Kent - March 24th, April 19th, 22nd, 26th, May 13th and 26th.
Redcar, Yorkshire - March 4th and May 9th.
Rhyl, Flintshire - April 7th.
St. Helier, Jersey - March 28th, April 4th...
Category: Services
Coxswain George Leng
COXSWAIN GEORGE LENG of Flam- borough died on the 6th of March, 1955, at the age of 75. He served as coxswain for 14 years, retiring at the end of 1945. He had previously served for more than 11 years as bowman.
In 1937 he...
Category: Obituaries
(Below) Members Ofhuddersfield Ladies' Lifeboat Luncheon Club Visited Flamborough This Summer to Take Part With Members of Flamborough Ladies' Guild and Luncheon Clu
(Below) Members ofHuddersfield ladies' lifeboat luncheon club visited Flamborough this summer to take part with members of Flamborough ladies' guild and luncheon club in a memorial service to the late Mrs Mabel Greenhalgh, first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Cost
Twelve life-boatmen lost their lives at sen, or died on their return, and seven life-boats were lost in various ways. One was left on the beaches of Dunkirk. One was destroyed at its station by an air-raid. Three were destroyed by an...
Category: Articles