LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Gratitude for Fifty Years of Married Happiness
AN anonymous gift of £2 has been received from a man and wife " in gratefulness for the blessings received during fifty years of married life.".
Category: Donations
La Jeune Fanny, of St Marlo
During a strong southerly wind and heavy rain, on the 14th De- cember, signal guns were heard from the lightship in the Prince's Channel. The Quiver No. 1 life-boat, stationed at Margate, was launched, and proceeded across the Margate...
Rescue In a Hurricane. A Silver-Medal Service at Tenby
ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a small steamer was in distress. She was the Fermanagh, of Belfast, bound light for Llanelly. A gale was blowing from the south-west, with...
Category: Services
Summary of Services in 1963
SUMMARY OF SERVICES IN 1963 Number of times life-boats called out on service Number of times inshore rescue boats called out on service Number of lives saved by life-boats Number of lives saved by inshore rescue boats Number of lives saved...
Category: Services
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1898
His GRACE THE DUKE or LEEDS IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF LEEDS.
Seconded by Colonel SAUNDER- SON, M.P.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and circulated, and...
Category: Meetings
A Great Example of How a Picture Can Paint a Thousand Words
A great example of how a picture can paint a thousand words - Sheringham lifeboatmen share a cup of tea with the rescued crew of the Canadian steamer faglesdiffe Hall. - View image in PDF
Photo; Nfws Chronicle. 30 October 1941. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MINEHEAD, SOMERSETSHIRE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Minehead, there being sufficient men available for manning and launching the boat, in order to strengthen the Life-boat Service on the...
Category: Articles
Councillor K J Holland Mayor of Skegness and a Former Coxswain and Jack Roughton Chairman of the Lincolnshire Appeal Lay Foundation Stones for Skegness'
Councillor K. J. Holland, mayor of Skegness and a former coxswain, and Jack Roughton, chairman of the Lincolnshire appeal, lay foundation stones for Skegness's new lifeboat station. (Photo Bob Lawrence). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
Category: Articles
Under-14 Teams of Wold Junior Football League
Under-14 teams of Wold Junior Football League, East Yorkshire, have been competing this winter for the first time for a new football trophy for annual competition donated by the Lifeboat Crew's (Bridlington) Social Club. Fred Walkington,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs