LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sorrento Screw Steamship
" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...
St. Philomena
MOTOR BOAT BREAKS DOWN ON FISHING TRIP Bally cotton, Co. Cork. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a visitor had reported that a boat was burning flares off Ballycotton....
Commentary
In place of the usual Notes of the Quarter there appears in this number an appeal by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
In other parts of this number there appear as usual accounts of services by the crews of life-boats and IRBs....
Category: Articles
Play A-Ground
Play a-ground Children from the Drayton Park Primary School are pictured celebrating the relaunch of the Oakley class William Henry and Mary King - in their playground! Nearly 1.000 people turned up to the school summer fair on 27 June to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ian Firman
When Ian Firman was appointed coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat in 1983 he was, at 27, one of the youngest men to have held that position. He joined the lifeboat crew in 1977 and became second coxswain in 1982. Serving the RNLI is fast... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Life savings with Yorkshire Building Society
We’re a few months into our Charity of the Year partnership with Yorkshire Building Society – and their fundraising is already making a splash!
The Come Rain or Shine campaign was launched on 27 January – SOS Day....
Category: Articles
Mrs. E. S. Raymond, of Llandudno
Mrs. Eleanor Stephens Raymond, of Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, who died at the end of September, 1931, was a member of the Branch Committee at Llandudno, and Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. She had been associated with...
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough
Ex-Coxswain Richard Chadwick, of Flamborough, who died on 28th Febru- ary, just before his seventieth birthday, served as an officer of the Flamborough life-boats for thirty-one years. From 1900 to 1911 he was second coxswain of the No. 2...
Category: Obituaries
A Centenarian's Last Gift
THE Institution has received from the family of Mrs. Barber, of Haslemere, Surrey, who died in June at the age of 102, a gift of twelve guineas. - This gift is the response, from twenty-nine of her family and friends, to...
Category: Donations