LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blackpool Illuminated
Jon Jones visits Blackpool's new all-singing, all-dancing lifeboat station and gets thoroughly rained on in the process..
Blackpool, with its Pleasure Beach, Illuminations and Golden Mile of amusements, night clubs,...
Category: Articles
Mr. Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death on 4th March of Mr.
Harry Hargood, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Worthing, a Vice-President of the Institution, the Life-boat Service has lost its oldest and one of its most loyal and distinguished friends. Mr....
Category: Obituaries
£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.
Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
Category: Articles
Here and There
Round Table 50th anniversary appeal At their National Conference held at Blackpool in May, Round Table delegates from all over Britain and Ireland voted to raise funds for a Waveney lifeboat. The appeal is to mark the 50th anniversary of the...
Category: Articles
Bessie Jones
BLACKPOOL.—On the 26th February, at 7.30 A.M., the coxswain of the Life-boat was informed that a vessel had just been seen on the Salthouse Bank with a signal of distress flying. The wind was blowing a gale from the N.W., and the sea was...
Maria F., of Hamburg
Bridlington, Yorkshire - On 4th-5th February, 1968, the life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched to the assistance of the motor vessel Maria F of Hamburg. A full account of this service will appear in the September issue of THE...
A Canoe
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—27th June.
A canoe containing two men had capsized off Rossall Point. One got ashore, but before help could reach the other he was drowned.—Rewards, £5 Is..
Wreck Chart for 1852
WITH the present Number of the Life- Boat Journal we present our readers with a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, showing all the casualties to shipping which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom in the year 1852,...
Category: Charts
A Raft of Money...
Comedian Norman Wisdom presents a cheque for £27,500 - the proceeds of the 1994 Portrush Raft Race - to Kelly Allen, the first female crew member of Portrush lifeboat. The Mayor of Coleraine, David McClarty is also pictured, right..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alistair Dunning, of Pfizer
Alistair Dunning, of Pfizer presents Nigel French and Dr Crawford, Ramsgate chairman with a cheque for £5,000 which will fund a year's crew training at the station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs