LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir William Hillary's Appeal
SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
Category: Articles
Albert's Skydive
Last August a dream came true for disabled pensioner Albert Moss when he parachuted from 13,000ft above the Yorkshire coast - boosting lifeboat coffers by £700 in the process.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
To the Help of Aeroplanes
Of those 3,000 launches 1,000, or a third, have been to the help of aeroplanes which had come down in the sea..
Category: Articles
Richard B. Wigfull & Son Ltd
PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUNTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.
A very fine example of English...
Category: Advertisement
David Jolly
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For tiller craft 20-45ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole Installation. Quickly disengaged. j amp. average...
Category: Advertisement
Mrs. Polly Donkin
MRS. POLLY DONKIN, the most widely known of the fisherwives of Cullercoats who for nearly thirty years have col- lected for the Life-boat Service at the summer exercise of the Cullercoats life- boat, died on the 26th of March after a long...
Category: Obituaries
Righting Trials of the First 37' Oakley Lifeboat to Be Fitted With Radar
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
Category: Articles
Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
Category: Articles
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord of Selsey died in May 1960 at the age of 69. He served as second coxswain from 1932 to 1936 and was coxswain from 1936 to 1952. During his last year of service he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
Boy Philip and Bessie Jane
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 17th November, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the Life-boat temporarily placed heie during the absence of the station's boat which was being altered and improved,...