LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings: Station Branches.
BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE).—On 1st July, Councillor T. P. Fletcher, J.P., Deputy-Mayor, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £371 had been col-...
Category: Branches
Athelduchess
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...
Below: Sir Kevin Tebbit Kcb Cmc
Below: Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMC, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence, and his wife.
Lady Tebbit, are joined by Tower Pier station manager Janet Kelly and Thames lifeboat crew members aboard Public... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It Had Never Been Done Before—Not Surprisingly—
/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer helped 4,500 people during the summer of 1974 and saved from certain death 650.
The French lifeboat service is much occupied with the modernisation of its fleet. St Tropez lifeboat,...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
Category: Committee
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Trawler Kirkella
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- * folk.—At 2.40 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also...