LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Happy Interlude When Princess Alexandra Visited Stockport In March: Arriving at the Town Hall for Lunch the Princess Met the Local Branch Crew of Lifeboat Auxiliaries
A happy interlude when Princess Alexandra visited Stockport in March: arriving at the Town Hall for lunch, the Princess met the local branch crew of lifeboat auxiliaries, some wearing their red stocking hats. She told them that when visiting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Was Made By Mrs Jean Peel
Over J,000 hand-made paper flowers were needed to transform a rowing boat into a 47ft Watson class lifeboat. The old Coniston custom of dressing rowing boats has been revived as part of Coniston water festival. The lifeboat was made by Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Carmania II, of Grimsby
Stromness.
About 4 on the morning of the 14th February three messengers from different houses in Invertown brought the Honorary Secretary the news that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the trawler Carmania II.,...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 22nd August, 1933.
Paid £20,466 10s. lid. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Some Ways of Raising Money
Raymie Sinclair of Kirkwall was given a bottle of whisky to raffle for the lifeboats; £20 was raised but when the winning ticket was drawn no one could read the name on the ticket. The bottle was therefore raffled again and brought in a...
Category: Donations
Notre Dame des Flots
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.49 in the evening of the 20th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a French fishing boat had been seen to go aground on the Brake Sands, and at 5.57 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings. The sea was...
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Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The...
Category: Advertisement
Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1958 has been won by Motor Mechanic Michael Peters of St. Ives for the rescue of a party who were marooned in a cave on the 9th of August, 1958. A...
Category: Awards
Summary of Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th June 1878: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee