LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec., 1876
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
Category: Services
On May 20, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the RNLI stand at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, and spoke with (I. to r.) Coxswain Albert Bird, Second Coxswain Charles Begg and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack. photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen Journals
On May 20, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the RNLI stand at the Music Hall, Aberdeen, and spoke with (I. to r.) Coxswain Albert Bird, Second Coxswain Charles Begg and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack. photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duke of Kent
HRH the Duke of Kent receives a commemorative plate during his visit to Harwich. Also pictured (I to r): Mr H. Bell, branch chairman, Mr K. Brand, longest serving crew member, Capl. R.
Shaw, honorary secretary and Rear... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
With Almost a Mile of Shelving, 3,500 Items and 90,000 Orders a Year to Process It Doesn 't Pay to Lose Track of Anything…
With almost a mile of shelving, 3,500 items and 90,000 orders a year to process it doesn 't pay to lose track of anything…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards Made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See Page 160 of This Issue for a Report of the Annual Meetings
Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...
Category: Awards
Mr and Mrs Derek Hull, Family of the Kilkeel Lifeboat's Donor Go Afloat After the Naming Ceremony - Report on Opposite Page.
Mr and Mrs Derek Hull, family of the Kilkeel lifeboat's donor go afloat after the naming ceremony - report on opposite page.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Every Man to the Boat and Every Woman to the Rope' Used to Be the Cry at Newbiggin and As a Tribute to the Past for the Branch's Harbour Fete In August the Ladies Dr
'Every man to the boat and every woman to the rope' used to be the cry at Newbiggin and, as a tribute to the past, for the branch's harbour fete in August the ladies dressed in traditional fisherwomen's costume. With the help... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies Handing Over and Dedications
Girvan, June 25 The second of the new 33ft Brede class lifeboats to go on station in Scotland was named Philip Vaux at a ceremony which took place at Girvan Harbour on Saturday June 25. Largely funded from a bequest by the late Mrs Elizabeth...
Category: Inaugurations