LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Garden of Mr Cliff Whitehead of Breaston Nottingham
The garden of Mr Cliff Whitehead of Breaston, Nottingham, was opened to the public to raise funds for Long Eaton branch and 900 people took the opportunity of viewing the magnificent garden. Mr Whitehead, who is a well known flower arranger,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Monkey Business
Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Stewart
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gotcha!
The things some people do to raise money for the lifeboats! Beryl Cole from Exmouth secretly sent in this picture of her husband, Brian. The couple were at an outside event in Exeter and Brian had his face painted to raise some cash for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Groombridge Award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009 has been given to Whitstable Helm Jonathan Carter and Crew Members Tony Martin and Henry Thomson. The crew saved the life of a man...
Category: Articles
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Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of November, 1955, the Tynemoutb.
police rang up to ask if the life-boat would pick up the body of a man which was in the sea off Tynemouth north pier....
"Royal" Help
The honorary secretary of one of the Institution's branches in the Midlands writes that he has had difficulty in getting helpers for the work of the branch, but he adds : " Fortunately I am lucky in this respect, as I have been...
Category: Articles
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer. He became a member of the Cromer crew in January, 1894, at the age of eighteen.
In 1902 he was appointed second cox- swain, and in 1909 coxswain. In 1917...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Interwave
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...