LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joyce Wells With a Sample of the Named Easter Eggs Which She Makes and Decorates at Home to Raise Money for Brighton Branch In Three Years She Has Made 1748 Eggs and Contributed £724
Joyce Wells with a sample of the named Easter eggs which she makes and decorates at home to raise money for Brighton branch.
In three years she has made 1,748 eggs and contributed £724 to branch funds. If any branch or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Minister's Plea for the Life-Boat Service
SPEAKING in the new Parish Church, Ardrossan, on Sunday, September 15th, the Rev. R. P. Fairlie, taking the text Mark iv. v. 41, pointed out that, while several of Christ's disciples were fisher- men, their work was only on a little...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part V—Planking
AFTER MANY MONTHS of patient craftsmanship, fitting, shaping and building up the many members which make up a boat's frame, RNLB Shoreline, building at William Osbornes of Littlehampton, is now being planked. The hull is taking form.<...
Category: Articles
Foremost
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...
The S.S. Kedah, of Singapore (1)
AUGUST 12TH. - ST. IVES, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. At 10.40 in the morning the St. Ives coastguard reported that a tug, with a steamer in tow, north of St. Ives Head, was making little headway. A fresh westerly gale was blowing, with very heavy...
Harbour Search
Crosshaven’s B class lifeboat Miss Betty is pictured searching for a man in Cork harbour after a car fell off the crossriver ferry on 8 March.
The driver of the car was recovered immediately, and the lifeboat launched to...
Category: Articles
Giving Instead of Receiving
THE Institution has received a gift from a Liverpool man who celebrated his twenty-first birthday by asking his friends, instead of buying him presents, to give him money for the life-boat service..
Category: Donations
A Barge
23rd Feb- ruary. A barge grounded on the Gunfleet, but a motor boat which had her in tow took off the only man on board.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
W R (Rob) Corran
W. R. (Rob) Corran, coxswain of the Douglas, Isle of Man, lifeboat from 1970 to 1974. Mr Corran joined the crew in 1932, serving as second coxswain from 1940 to 1970..
Category: Obituaries
A Speed Boat
JULY 28TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man who had put out in a speed-boat was reported as missing, but he had returned safely. - Rewards, £10 11s..