LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life Governors Three honorary life governors have been appointed in recognition of their services to the Institution. At the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, each was presented wth a...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has replaced the No. 1 Life- boat on this Station by a new boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, which was presented by Mrs. MABT ANN ELLIS, of York, and formerly of North Grrimston...
Category: Articles
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
Category: Services
Angle Life-Boat Lands Nine People from the "Etrog"
Angle Life-Boat Lands Nine People From The "Etrog". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above Left; the New Boathouse at Norton and Port Eynon
Above left; The new boathouse at Norton and Port Eynon replaced two garage units.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portpatrick: Mrs Milligan the Honorary Curator Mans a Souvenir Stall Very Popular With Holidaymakers Who Visit the Museum Housed In the Old Lifeboat House
Portpatrick: Mrs Milligan. the honorar curator, mans a souvenir stall very popular with holidaymakers who visit the museum housed in the old lifeboat house.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Provider A, Easier Morn, Gem, Venus and Enterprise
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 26th of April, 1949, there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance that would endanger the return of the fishing boats. When five were seen approaching two members of the harbour pulling...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...
Category: Articles
RNLI News
NEWSPOINT What would Sir William Hillary have thought about the day when Rye Harbour lifeboat rescued 29 children and adults from inflatable toys on a hot summer's day earlier this year (see Lifeboat Services)? When he founded the RNLI...
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Book Reviews
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
Category: Articles