LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Unlucky Break:
Unlucky break: having landed safely after his sponsored parachute jump, disaster struck Stan Todd while he was running to gather up his parachute—he tripped on a furrow and broke his ankle! Stan, who is a member of Brighton's lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 10th March, 1892.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart. M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Record Draw
The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.
Andrew Hartwell, managing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Well Dressing Is An Old Custom In Derbyshire and Here Is a Magnificent Example of the Art Created at Holymoorside Last August Usually Well Dressings Have a Religious Theme But Last Year Chest
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) a Guess-The-Weight Competition Run By Ley Tonstone Branch at a Hospital Fete Last Summer Raised £30 for the Lifeboat Service 'struggling'' to Lift the Bag (It Weig
(Below) A guess-the-weight competition run by Ley tonstone branch at a hospital fete last summer raised £30 for the lifeboat service. 'Struggling'' to lift the bag (it weighed 6 Ib) are two branch members, W. H. A.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roy Clemo
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
The Nonsuch, a Replica of a Hudson Bay Company Trading Vessel
At 10.14 a.m. on 10th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Nonsuch, a 65-ton replica of a 17th-century Hudson Bay Company trading vessel, with a crew of seven, was in difficulties in heavy seas south west...