LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
Category: Articles
Wells IRB Helping a Norwich Couple In Trouble When Their Sailing Boat Capsized at Blakeney Norfolk
Wells IRB helping a Norwich couple in trouble when their sailing boat capsized at Blakeney, Norfolk, on 31st August, 1968. A member of the IRB crew, Mr. Tony Pulford, has gone overboard to assist.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bob Kemm (R)
Bob Kemm (r). assistant general manager of Leicester Bui/ding Societv, hands a cheque for £8.000 to Lord Stanley of Alderley. a member of the Committee of Management, at the central jetty. Earls Court.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kenneth Harcourt Williams
MAY 1991 Kenneth Harcourt Williams, a member of the Falmouth branch committee from 1951-65, chairman from 1966-1980 and vice president from 1981-1991. He was awarded the silver badge in 1976..
Category: Obituaries
Mr Phil Parish,
Mr Phil Parish, secretary of Hitchin and district brnahc since 1988 and committee member since 1985. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1998..
Category: Obituaries
Norman Canning,
Norman Canning, founder member and former secretary of the Gravesend branch from 1970 until 1992. Norman was awarded the silver badge in 1989 and remained active on the committee until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Brian Fell,
Brian Fell, chairman of Hinckley branch from 1980 to 1995 and honorary secretary from 1975 to 1980. A founder member of the branch he was awarded a Silver badge in 1991..
Category: Obituaries
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
DOLPHIN IN PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE
The IRB at Hartlepoool, Co. Durham, had an unusual service on 21st June, 1970, which it turned into 'a public relations exercise owing to the beach being packed with visitors and a rather smelling dead dolphin causing some headaches to...
Category: Articles
Increased Rewards
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
Category: Articles