LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Income and Expenditure—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1955
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1955. 1954 £ 216,657 385 32,751 9,758 354 37,173 11,126 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS :— New Life- boats for the following Stations : On account — Berwick - on - Tweed, Campbeltown, ...
Category: Accounts
Two Dinghies
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Letters
Welcome! Between the crew of Cromer lifeboat station and our station Ijmuiden a friendship has flourished for some years. This culminated in a visit of our lifeboat Johanna Louisa to Cromer from May 8 until May 11.
The...
Category: Correspondence
Filey on 2 July 2001 for the Naming
Filey On 2 July 2001 For The Naming. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Relief Tyne Class Lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher Alongside the Sinking Pilot Boat St.Olave
The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher alongside the sinking pilot boat St Olave. - View image in PDF
Photo Michael Pett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tough Choices
The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...
Category: Articles
La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
Gallantry of a Son of a Life-Boat Worker
On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.
The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.
Sir Max Aitken had...
Category: Inaugurations
When In February a Coach Bringing a Visiting Football Team and Supporters to Buckingham Was Swept Downstream from a Ford Across the River Swollen By Heavy Rain
When, in February, a coach bringing a visiting football team and supporters to Buckingham was swept downstream from a ford across the river, swollen by heavy rain, Peter Steers, landlord of the Woolpack, did some quick thinking. While... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs