LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts
Ferry horror ppy endingEven experienced sailors can sometimes get caught out by unusual circumstances. Saturday 5 May was a bright, clear day, one of the first weekends this year with ideal weather for a pleasant day's...
Life-Boat Day In Capetown.
The first life-boat day to be held in oae af the Dominions for the British beat Service was held ia Capetown on February 4th. It raised £1506. This day vas of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price has beea making throughout the Union of...
Category: Articles
Sir David a G Mackworth Bt, Cdr Rn,
Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...
Category: Obituaries
Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Introduce a friend With this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is a leaflet entitled 'Introduce a friend'.
We hope you will pass this leaflet on to a friend, neighbour or perhaps relative, who may interested in supporting the...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Cards and Calendars
This year life-boat supporters will have a choice of four Christmas cards and three prices. There will be a 5d. card illustrated by a bowl of traditional Christmas flowers and berries; a plain white card bearing the Institution's crest...
Category: Advertisement
Shoreline
IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
Category: Articles
Books
Books . . .
• Every now and again a book is added to the lifeboat library which can be recognised at once as a 'classic'. Such is A Source Book of Lifeboats by Ray Kipling (Ward Lock, £3.50). Few people can...
Category: Articles
Living with history
The RNLI’s many boathouses are often adapted through their lifetimes to meet changing operational needs but sometimes they must be vacated entirely – and then enter a whole new existence
If walls could speak, those of old...
Category: Articles