LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tenby 46' 9" Watson Lifeboat Henry Comber Brown Launched on February 27 In Gale Force Winds and a Very Rough Sea to Bring a Man from Caldy Island for Compassi
Tenby 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Henry Comber Brown launched on February 27 in gale force winds and a very rough sea to bring a man from Caldy Island for compassionate reasons.
photograph by courtesy of R.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Record of the Branches: 1926—1927. The 20 Branches With the Highest Collection
The 20 Branches with the highest Collection.
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the Branch financial year ending September 30th,...
Category: Branches
Some Ways of Raising Money
Poole guild, formed twelve years ago with ten members, now has a membership of 700 and since 1969 it has raised 63,000; the total last year exceeded 15,000. Members of the guild man both a lifeboat caravan on Poole Quay, which took...
Category: Donations
"Lest We Forget." November 11th, 1891: November 11th, 1918
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
Category: Articles
Comedy Drama Role for Port Isaac Lifeboat
Truculent, tactless, and causing mayhem. No, not the lifeboat crew but Martin Clunes starring as Doc Martin, a GP who arrives in the small, sleepy Cornish hamlet of Port Wenn (better known to locals as Port Isaac). The six-part series stars... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Breezy Day In Barmouth As the Station's Mersey Class Moira Barry Comes Alongside. Neither Rain Nor Wind Could Dampen the Enthusiasm and Ashore Colourful
A breezy day in Barmouth as the station's Mersey class Moira Barry comes alongside. Neither rain nor wind could dampen the enthusiasm and ashore colourful umbrellas vied with the bunting!. - View image in PDF
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Boats, bangles and bands: the occasion was the annual bazaar of the Hakin Point branch
Boats, bangles and bands: The occasion was the annual bazaar of the Hakin Point branch and once again crowds attended for boat trips, bargains and other attractions, one of which was the fishing boat race organised by the South West Wales... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats of the World: Part I—European Organisations By Eric Middleton
IT is FITTING that an article on the lifeboats of the world should begin by acknowledging the fact that Great Britain was the cradle of the lifeboat and that from the early efforts of the 'National Institution for the Preservation of...
Category: Articles
News of a Great Victory (From the Daily Telegraph)
NEWS of a great battle has reached the metropolis. The action was not fought on American soil; and, as far as we know, war has not broken out between Denmark and Germany; so that it cannot be of those incensed nations that we speak. The...
Category: Articles
Look Out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January
Look out for Danger on the Beach from 12 January - the second national BBC TV documentary series to feature the work of the RNLI lifeboats and lifeguards in Devon and Cornwall. Viewers may remember last year's moving report of the death... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs