LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Rosslare Harbour ROSSLARE HARBOUR in County Wexford is, according to the tourist brochures, the heart of the Sunny South East.
Unfortunately, on Friday June 28,1985, it failed to live up to its name. With the naming...
Category: Inaugurations
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
Category: Branches
(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton Retired In 1976 After 29 Years As a Member of Tynemouth Lifeboat Crew; He Was Second Coxswain from 1953 to 1963 Coxswa
(Below) Ex-Coxswain Robert 'Bobbie' Brunton retired in 1976 after 29 years as a member of Tynemouth lifeboat crew; he was second coxswain from 1953 to 1963, coxswain from 1963 to 1976. At TynemoutH's annual Christmas dinner the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MARCH 11TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Distress signals had been seen five miles east of Newton, but no vessel could be found. - Rewards, £14 3s..
S.M.126
OCTOBER 15TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat S.M.126, with a crew of three, had broken down one mile to the south-west and needed help. The weather was...
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London District.
ACTON.—Address to Chiswick Brotherhood and Sisterhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.
CARSHALTON.—Drawing-room Meeting at Wallington, given by...
Category: Branches
Offshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1976
Aberdeen, Grampian October 1.
Angle, Dyfed November 22 and 26.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow September 11.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal September 20 and November 23.
Barmouth, Gwynedd...
Category: Services
Still Grateful After Eighteen Years
Ix September, 1934, a life-boat rescued two men who were seen clinging to a capsized boat. When she reached them they were completely exhausted.
A few days later they made a gift to the station. Not long afterwards one of...
Category: Donations
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
Category: Articles
Notre Dame de Montligeon, of Boulogne
NOVEMBER 10TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. The steam trawler Notre Dame de Montligeon, of Boulogne, had gone aground, but refloated without help. - Paid permanent crew.