LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Ives Disaster Fund
SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...
Category: Articles
An Inland School and the Life-Boats
THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...
Category: Articles
The Handing Over Ceremony
The handing over ceremony and service of dedication of the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 lifeboat Aldershot took place at Hayling Island station on Saturday July 4. Aldershot branch, a bequest from Mrs D. M. Chartres and a gift from Cramer all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarlet Buccaneer
Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class lifeboat have been awarded the RNLI's...
People and Places
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble White Lady
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irttiin was launched at 11.20 P.M. on the 26th October, and returned after a fruitless search for a fishing boat with two men on board, at 4 A.M. on the 27th. She was being...
The S.S. Baron Ardrossan
DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...
Judging taking Place in the Birmingham Post's Children's Poster Design Competition, Organised In Association With the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from All Parts
Judgingtaking placein The Birmingham Post's children's poster design competition, organised in association with the R.N.L.I, and the British Poster Advertising Association. Entrants, from all parts of the Midlands, were asked to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr James Daniel,
January 1999 Mr James Daniel, St Ives chairman. Mr Daniel joined the station committee in 1953 and was chairman from 1956 until 1988. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1980 and the Gold badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has replaced the No. 1 Life- boat on this Station by a new boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, which was presented by Mrs. MABT ANN ELLIS, of York, and formerly of North Grrimston...
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