LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fund Raising at Sporting Events By Peter Holness
A WAY of raising funds is to hold collections at sporting events, such as professional football matches, race meetings and dog track meetings, all of which attract large gates. Four London football clubs were helpful in 1970 and each allowed...
Category: Articles
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent With a Posy
(Above) Presenting the Duchess of Kent with a posy before the Wells naming ceremony was a big event for Storm Force member Melissa Walker, daughter of Coxswain/ Mechanic Graham Walker.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cyril Mayo
Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Myrtle Atterton
Mrs Myrtle Atterton, membership secretary and founder member of Broadstone branch since 1980. She received a Silver badge in 1990 and was the wife of John Atterton, former RNLI deputy Director..
Category: Obituaries
Miss Leonora Powell,
Miss Leonora Powell, founder member and chairman of Bourne End branch from 1969 until her election as president in 1982, a post she held until 1989. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1982..
Category: Obituaries
Lt. Commander Peter Morton Rn Rtd
Lt. Commander Peter Morton RN Rtd, committee member of Okehampton branch for over 30 years. Over £800 was given to the RNLI in his memory..
Category: Obituaries
John Clemens Kennedy
December John Clemens Kennedy JP, Newquay branch chairman since 1965. Also an crew member until he was 45, Mr Kennedy was awarded the gold badge in 1986 and gold bar in 1994..
Category: Obituaries
Raymond Baxter
Raymond Baxter – broadcaster, yachtsman, former member of the RNLI Public Relations Advisory Committee and Guest of Honour at the 1976 Annual Presentation of Awards.
Category: Obituaries
July (1)
JULY MEETING SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX About 3.50 in the afternoon of the 25th May, 1940, a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, capsized when they were changing seats about 400 yards off shore. They succeeded in reaching a boat...
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New Commercial
It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and encouragement to others " to go and do likewise;" and perhaps...