LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lee Johnson
Lee Johnson, the owner of a hairdressing salon in Lymington, raised £180 for the lifeboats with a raffle for a doll's house. He sold £90 worth of tickets himself and Lymington ladies' guild sold the rest.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank
After Coxswain! Mechanic Frank Ide of Poole lifeboat had made the draw for the RNLI's twenty-first national lottery. Cub Scout Iain Winslade, from Tolpuddle, presented to him a cheque for £40. With them is Rear Admiral W. J. Graham,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Sylvia Knox (Left) of the Portrush Ladies' Guild
Sylvia Knox (left) of the Portrush ladies' guild accepts a cheque for over £9,000 from the Porlrush Raft Race Committee, being the proceeds of the 1987 race. Over the past five vears the committee has raised nearly 140,000 for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1. the Audience
The audience is spell bound during the review of the year film. (Send in your snippets of 2006 for consideration for next year's review to Film and Image Manager Eleanor Driscoll at RNLI Headquarters). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stephen Iredale
Stephen Iredale Staithes and Runswick helmsman Stephen Iredale has been awarded the Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the rescue of a lone sailor from the trimaran SIS (Spring 2001 issue, p. 10). The annual award is presented for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the South East Coast.
It is on the South East coast that the calls for the life-boats have been most frequent. Walmer has been launched 50 times and rescued 85 lives; Ramsgate 52 times and rescued 168 lives; Margate 60 times and rescued 150 lives. That is a total...
Category: Articles
Willowpool (1)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...
The S.S. Lairdsbank
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 3.20 A.M. on the 6th April the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore N.E. of Crammag Head. The wind was light and the sea smooth, but there was a thick fog. The new motor lifeboat Jeanie Speirs was...
A Gift of Hair
A WOMAN in Essex has written: "Will you please accept the cuttings of my hair and sell it for your funds. I understand real hair is urgently needed." The Institution gratefully accepted the hair, and has sold it for fifteen...
Category: Donations