LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cleaning Up
Youth group members from St. Peter's Church in Pembury raised £466 for lifeboat coffers in March by washing cars and selling home-made cakes.
The group of 14 youngsters presented a cheque to Peter Chartes, chairman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emergency Rations
The Institution has received gifts of chocolate from Messrs. Cadbury, Fry, and Rowntree, and biscuits from Messrs. Huntley and Palmers, McVitie and Price and Peek Frean as emergency rations for its life-boats. By permission of the Ministry...
Category: Articles
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles
Lady Harrison's Gift
THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...
Category: Donations
Awards to Honorary Workers. Thanks of the Institution on Vellum
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. ALEXANDER ALLAN, on his retirement after fifteen years as honorary secretary of the Kirkcudbright station branch.
Mr. HERBERT E. LOYNES, on his...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Lady Anne
CAISTER.—Signal guns having been fired by the lightships, the Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched at3 P.M. on the 10th January during a W.
wind and a very thick fog, and sailed to the south part of the Middle...
The Oil Supply Vessel Smit Lloyd 47
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...
R. and M. J. Charnley
At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...
The S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was...
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...
Category: Donations