LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Royal Reception
A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
Category: Meetings
Rainbow Flowers,
by POST from GUERNSEY for Birthdays, Thank-you's and Anniversaries CODfc CARNATIONS (mixed colours) OC10 10 Luxury• Carnation;- Special offer £9.95 C18 18 Luxury Camaiitins C24 2 1 Luxury Carnations £16,95 FREESIAS (mixed...
Category: Advertisement
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
Wheal Geavor
Sinking trawler DUNMORE EAST PILOT STATION informed the deputy launching authority of Dunmore East lifeboat station at 1035 on Monday October 12, 1981, that the trawler Wheal Geavor, with a crew of three, was disabled and making water; she...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 27th August, 1937.
PAID £13,874 lls. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
A Ship's Boat
NOVEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEM-BROKESHIRE. A ship's boat with men on board, thought to be from a vessel which had been sunk by enemy action, was reported to be drifting off St. Govan’s Head, but nothing was found. Later it was learned that...
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
Category: Articles
Rnli Cook Books Signed By Recipe Contributors Well Known In the World of Sport Went Like Hot Cakes Offshore Yachtsman the Rt Hon Edward Heath Mp Supported By S
RNLI Cook Books, signed by recipe contributors well known in the world of sport, went like hot cakes. Offshore yachtsman the Rt. Hon. Edward Heath, MP, supported by Sergeant Frank Elverson, did a roaring trade.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat weekends
A SERIES of unusual long weekends for lovers of ships, lifeboats and the sea are to be held in St Ives, Cornwall.
Mike and Jill Elleston, who own the tiny Skidden House Hotel, have organised two weekends in February and...
Category: Articles
Photographic Competition
THE first prizes in the Institution's photographic competition, the terms of which were announced in the September 1961 number of the Life- boat, have been awarded to :— MR. A. E. TURNER, honorary treasurer of the New Romney and Romney...
Category: Articles