LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Calendar for 1943.
The life-boat calendar for 1943 will shortly be ready. It will have on it a reproduction in colours of a painting of Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of Margate, who won the D.S.M. for helping to bring off over 600 men of the B.E.F. from the...
Category: Articles
New District Inspectors Appointed
As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...
Category: Committee
Keith Graham, Coxswain of Exmouth Lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, Chief Executive of Severn Trent Water
Keith Graham, coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, Sue Pollard and Vic Cocker, chief executive of Severn Trent Water and chairman of the Forward Birmingham campaign, at its launch at the NEC.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
Netta Croan
Fire at sea A TRAWLER on fire, not under control, but under way about four miles north east of Aberdeen: that was the message received from HM Coastguard at 2055 on Saturday, April 13, by the honorary secretary, Aberdeen. The crew were...
Lost at sea
4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...
Category: Articles
News and Views
Minehead's new D class lifeboat, George and Christine, was named during a ceremony held outside the boathouse on 10 October 1999.
The new lifeboat, funded by George Stnbling of Axminster, replaced the previous D class...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution is again issuing a life-boat Christmas card and calendar.
They will both have reproduced on them in colours a picture, specially g linted for the Institution by Mr.
ernard Gribble...
Category: Advertisement
James Cocker & Sons,
ABERDEEN C i T Y COUNCIL To the rescue with the "Shinins isht' Rose Lifeboats * J» AJM.f M.11 I J.YV7 LJ V- Roval Na(lonal U)eboat "Shining Light" was commissioned by Aberdeen City Council as part of the Millennium...
Category: Advertisement
City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...