LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth
OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1958 included :— C.B.E.
Brigadier J. W. H. Gow, O.B.E., D.L., a member of the Committee of Management and chairman of the Glasgow...
Category: Articles
Vacuum Reflex Ltd
LIFEMASTER Lifejackets MANUFACTURED TO BRITISH STANDARD 3595 : 1963 VACUUM REFLEX LT.° Special Designs supplied to R.N.L.I.
and constructional engineering concerns • VARIETY OF DESIGNS INCLUDES INHERENT, ORAL AND CO2...
Category: Advertisement
An Air bed
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...
Going quackers! the Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race,
Going quackers! The Frame Sub Aqua Club raised £700 at its duck race, the proceeds of which will be split between the club and the RNLI. Each of the 700 ducks was sponsored at £1 a time and club member Mike Moore seems to be having... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr P. V. Mackinnon,
Mr P. V. MacKinnon, life vice president of the Institution. Mr MacKinnon was elected to the committee of management in 1968 and was a member of the fundraising, finance and establishment committees.
He served as chairman of...
Category: Obituaries
Lebu
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—During a severe gale on the 20th October the barque Lebu, of Liverpool, at anchor about five miles from Douglas Head, hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Douglas No. 2 Life-boat, the John Turner Turner...
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
The Marquess of Ailsa
THE committee of management greatly regret the death in April of their colleague, the Marquess of Ailsa, at the age of ninety-one. Lord Ailsa was not only the oldest, but the senior member.
He joined the committee of manage...
Category: Obituaries
Birthday Honours
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1955 was: K.C.B.
Vice-Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of...
Category: Awards