LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heart and soul
In 1946, the lifeboat station on Valentia Island reopened after more than 50 years. ‘I was just 3 years old,’ remembers Dick. ‘Sitting high on my daddy’s shoulders, the vision of the lifeboat and the knowledge that its volunteer crew were...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1904
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BRASSEY, K.C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. LOBD BRASSEY, ILC.B.
Seconded by the Eight Hon.
LORD CLAUD J. HAMILTON.
1. That ...
Category: Meetings
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1904
The late Xr. William Wallis The late Mrs. 31. C. Liqard.
Rlrs. Charles Stephens . .
Amount of WE or Legacy.
Date received.
1894 6,000 - - 1904 1,000 - - 1,000 - - 1,798...
Category: Donations
Bookshelf
some recent publications reviewed EDWARDIAN WORTHING Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town written and published by Rob Blann at £12.95 ISBN 09516277 1 6 Foreword by RaymondBaxter, RNLl vice president and member of the committee of management...
Category: Articles
Knockdown from Page 86
from page 86 in the boat, that is the main thing. To get them back out of the water is the problem. If you keep them in the boat you will not have to pick men out of the water in seas that are still liable to capsize you. The crew should be...
Category: Articles
Wreck of Le Vieux Tigre at Beast Point
This steam trawler went ashore on 27th March, 1935, in a fog, and her crew of eighteen were rescued by the motor life-boat at The Lizard. - View image in PDF
(Sse opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the Indian Chief. Noble Services of the "Bradford" Life-Boat
THE accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, sta- tioned at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan.,...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for Newbiggin, Northumberland
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
Category: Medals
The Fundraisers
Starting them young! J o s e p h Stravrinidis, aged six, of Southport has been doing sterling work for the RNLI. During the September meeting of the S o u t h p o r t branch, he presented the treasurer with money raised by selling drawings...
Category: Articles