LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Falling tide, rising tide ONLY AN HOUR OR TWO after West Kirby lifeboat crew had been receiving instruction on mouth to mouth resuscitation from their divisional inspector, Cdr George Cooper, on Thursday March 6, and while they were still...
Bronze Medal for Fowey Coxswain
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting, 1902
The Bight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the Admiralty, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P.
be...
Category: Meetings
Books
• In the annals of the RNLI new deed of gallantry are recorded year by year. From comparatively recent times, the very names of such casualties as World Concord, Netta Croan, Lyrma and Orion conjure up the high courage and fine seamanship...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Angler
AN unusual rescue carried out in a small plywood dinghy led to the rescue from drowning of an angler near Dunbar on 15th April, 1968. At 3.30 in the after- noon of that day, Miss H. Bibby, a gardener on the Earl of Haddington's estate at...
Category: Articles
The Crew
Lerwick lifeboatmen lead Viking fire festival Longships are so old fashioned. The 21 st century Viking's transport-of-choice is a Severn class lifeboat.
Or so Lerwick crew members Bruce Leask (left) and John Sinclair...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1953
1952 £ s. d, 226,765 8 4 229 10 2 29,963 7 7 10,020 - - 126 18 9 36,986 4 6 12,043 - 11 1,638 - - 2,836 16 1 320,609 603 280 1,867 911 150 3,813 11,978 24,357 39 36,375 38,105 7,130 41,665 987 759 50.543 6 10 9 4 7 18 10 10 14 5 19 12...
Category: Accounts