LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent Congratulates Robert Cann
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Category: Photographs
Three Skin Divers Rescued By Flamborough Life-Boat In November
Three Skin Divers Rescued By Flamborough Life-Boat In November. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
LIFE-BOAT HOLED BY CASUALTY A SMALL BOAT in a dangerous position off the West Hoyle Bank on 27th August, 1971, led to the Hoylake, Cheshire, life-boat Thomas Corbett being launched at 10.27 a.m.
The wind was west north west...
The S.S. Markab N. and a Norwegian Tanker
Dover, Kent.—At 8.47 on the even- ing of the 24th of April, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station through the Dungeness pilot cutter that the S.S. Markab N., of...
Bridlington Bowman Killed on Service
AT 5.8 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard at Brid- lington telephoned the life-boat station that two girl bathers were being washed seawards in Thornwick Bay, and at 5.35 the life-boat Tillie Morri- son, Sheffield...
Category: Services
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
THE decision of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution to establish the headquarters of the " Life-boat Saturday " Fund in London, under the management principally of a representative committee of " Life-boat...
Category: Articles
(Right) Arun:
(right) Arun: length overall 52ft or 54ft; beam 17ft; draught 5ft; displacement 31 tons; maximum speed 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Arun, introduced in 1971, has a crew of six; she lies afloat. Hulls of the first... - View image in PDF
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Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
November, 1901. B. AND BE.
The 35th Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Fund was held on the 17th ultimo, and was presided over by Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that,...
Category: Meetings
Over the Top
Over the top Daredevil gran, Barbara Page, threw caution to the wind in August by abseiling 325ft down Blackpool's fastest rollercoaster and raising over £1,000 for the lifeboats in the process.
Barbara, a member... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs