LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
Category: Advertisement
Vliestroom, Kalso and Karanan
MARCH 3 1 ST. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
At 5.55 P.M. a steamer was seen to be ashore at Trefusis Point Falmouth Harbour, and at 6.10 P.M. the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched. A southerly gale was...
The John and Edmund
men.
About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.
It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...
Category: Advertisement
Halfpennies and Farthings
FOR the eighth year running the Institution received at Christmas, from a lady in Hampstead, a gift of all the halfpennies she has collected during the year. Her collection for 1938 was 552. This was 182 more than in...
Category: Donations
People and Places
Record draw The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Annual Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild and Life-boat Day workers on 29th April. Speakers : The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, a Vice- President of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
The Belgian Fishing Boat Anna Maria and Mobeka
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CAMPBELTOWN JANUARY 1 9TH. - CAMPBLE- TOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWN-SHIRE. At seven minutes to eight in the morning a message came from the coastguard at Southend that a ship was ashore in front of the...