LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Moment of Truth!
The moment of truth! Eamonn Andrews waylays Coxswain Matt Lethbridge in the London Boat Show, Earls Court, to say 'This is Your Life'. (Look into the background, left, and you will also see Emergency Mechanic John 'Chick'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. 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
The Gold Standard
Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services
The History of the Institution
ON 30th October the history of the Institution, during its first hundred years of work, was published under the title " Britain's Life-boats : A Century of Heroic Service." It has been written, at the request of the Committee...
Category: Articles
The Presentation of Public Relations Statuettes Was Made By the Duke of Atholl Seen Above (I) With Mrs Stanley Herbert Who Received the Statuette Awarded Posthum
The presentation o)'public relations statuettes was made by the Duke of Atholl, seen above (I.) with Mrs Stanley Herbert, who received the statuette awarded posthumously to her husband, and Peter Hadfield. (Right) The other two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss Gaynor Lacey By Courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey
Miss Gaynor Lacey by courtesy of the Daily Mirror and Arthur Sidey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Best Essay
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
Category: Articles
General Practitioner on the Lifeboat By O C Parry- Jones Honorary Medical Adviser Moelfre
LITTLE DID I THINK some 20 years ago when I started in general practice that I should be in active service for more than a decade as a lifeboat doctor or HMA (honorary medical adviser), as we are called. Years later I asked the now retired...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
September Meeting.
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 18th June the honorary secretary received a telephone...
Category: Services