LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Centenary
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Centenary celebrations began with the meeting, in the Guildhall, described on another page, on the Institution's hundredth birthday—4th March. They are being...
Category: Articles
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Daniel, of Aberystwyth.
He joined the crew in 1911, was ap- pointed bowman in 1933, second cox- swain in 1936 and coxswain at the beginning of 1943. He retired at the end of...
Category: Articles
The Record of the War
In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
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The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Andrew White, of Donaghadee, Co.
Down, Northern Ireland. He has been a member of the crew since the station was established in 1910. In January, 1916, he became bowman, and in ...
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The Fundraisers
An eggs-tra special gift The fabulous Faberge-style egg created for the RNLI in Chichester by Ebony Jewellers in South Street has finally found a home.
Sothebys valued the egg at £20,000, an amount which the Worshipful...
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The Fundraisers
In Brief MKMBKRS of Backwell branch recently travelled to Cherbourg and back in a day as guests of the P&O ferry company to sell RN LI Volvo draw tickets to passengers. The captains of both the ferries involved, Pride of Cherbourg and...
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News from the Branches
Belfast Lough.
i The Annual Meeting, which was | largely attended, was held on 16th January, the chair being taken by the Lord Mayor, Sir William Coates, Bt., D.L. The financial statement for the...
Category: Branches
The Observer
•1824-1974 See how 98,500 lives have been saved by men like these This is just one of the remarkable photographs included inTheObserver Lifeboat Exhibition.
They are the work of Observer photographer, Chris Smith.who spent...
Category: Advertisement
the Victory and the Merlin
Stromness, Orkneys. At 2.20 p.m.
on 29th December, 1965, the honorary secretary expressed his concern about two local fishing vessels, the Victory and the Merlin, whose arrival from the fishing grounds was overdue. The life...
September
Launches 36 Lives rescued 49 SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
Category: Services