LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum:
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum: forty-five sub-aqua diving pirates from Swindon took the plunge in style. They swam three and a half miles along the Thames, raising over £450 for the Institution.
The divers kept their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary Taylor of Padstow
Mary Taylor of Padstow is a prolific fund raiser. During the financial year ending September 1985 she raised a magnificent £1,250—all the more remarkable when you find out that she makes all the items she sells herself. Throughout the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue
rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...
Category: Articles
John Stewart
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gotcha!
The things some people do to raise money for the lifeboats! Beryl Cole from Exmouth secretly sent in this picture of her husband, Brian. The couple were at an outside event in Exeter and Brian had his face painted to raise some cash for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two M.B.E's.
In the New Year's Honours Mr. W. W. Harris was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the New Brighton life-boat station, and Mrs. E. M. Astley Roberts, president of the Eastbourne...
Category: Articles
Lifeguards rescue boaters
5 August: Lifeguards on Castlerock Beach, Co Antrim, rescued a man and woman from the water after their boat sank. The boaters had sent out a mayday call and the lifeguards, closest to the scene, were quick to...
Category: Articles
Shield and H.M. Drifter Rowantree
NOVEMBER 2lST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 2.45 P.M. the naval base reported that two small fishing boats were in distress just outside the harbour, and at 3.5 the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was launched. A strong S.E....
Barnhill (2)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...