LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ann Elizabeth
SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.
The sea...
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London,
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, on 2nd January, 1969. As a founder member Sir Alec is entitled to fly the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN FRANK A. BLOOM, of the Walton and Frinton life-boat Edian Courtauld. He was appointed bowman in January, 1947, second coxswain in January, 1952, and coxswain in September, 1964. His most recent award was a bronze medal for his part... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Star of Hope, Freda and Minnie
On the morning of the 1st May the local motor fishing cobles put out to haul crab pots. A moderate N. wind was blowing, with a considerable ground swell, and at 10.30 A.M. with the tide ebbing the sea broke heavily across the bay, making the...
New Vice-President
Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, K.B.B., C.B., has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution. He has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1953. In the same year he became a Vice-President of the Scottish Life-boat...
Category: Committee
Feature Old Friends...
The first of the Thames lifeboats was officially named in June, marking the latest in a long legacy of lifeboats provided by The Lifeboat Fund. The early civil servants, who got together in 1866 to buy a single lifeboat, would have been...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Medallists, 1915-1916
IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...
Category: Medals
Small Boat Big Record
Small boat, big record A weekend in August saw an event with a difference - a 24-hour sponsored sail organised by the Conisbrough and Hemsworth model boat clubs to see how far a model boat could travel in the time.
A new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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