LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Thomas D. Dawson, of the North Sunderland life-boat The Edward and Mary Lester. Appointed second coxswain in 1951, Coxswain Dawson, who became coxswain in 1955, joined the crew in 1927. He was awarded the bronze medal in 1959 for... - View image in PDF
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At 7.20 p.m. on 15th October, 1966, request was received for the life-boat to convey a patient to hospital on the mainland. At 8.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat...
Marie Rose, Beatty, G.B.H., Red Herring, I'll Try and Bettsey
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12 noon on 23rd April, 1967, when the life-boat Louise Stephens was at sea the coxswain noticed that conditions on the bar would be likely tocause difficulties for seven small boats fishing in the...
Marks New Brighton Lifeboat
Confused? All those in lifejackets in this picture are not lifeboatmen—in fact, it is quite obvious that they are not even men. They are some of the staff of the Liscard, Wallasey, branch of Marks and Spencer who have helped to raise £1... - View image in PDF
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Well Oiled!
Well oiled! Ray Burden and his wife Deanna recently presented an oil painting of Weymouth lifeboat, Tony Vanderve/l, to coxswain Bob Runyeard.
Ray painted the picture and donated it to the station to mark the 20th... - View image in PDF
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Arranmore August 30 1986:
Arranmore, August 30, 1986: This station, off the north west coast of Ireland, can accurately be described as one of the outposts of the RNLI. The picturesque island is now linked to the mainland by a regular ferry service and so it was... - View image in PDF
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PORT ISAAC, August 8, 1987: two anglers, cut off by the tide when they clambered to remote rocks north of Hole Beach are picked up by Port Isaac's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, earlier alerted by Hartland Coastguards. The alarm was...
Guilding the Rose
To commemorate the Jubilee Year of Townswomen's Guilds, the Central Yorkshire Federation of Townswomen's Guilds held a 'Sixty Glorious Years' event at the Royal Baths Assembly Rooms in Harrogate.
The York... - View image in PDF
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Members of the Midlands Area Branch of the British Caravanners Club
Members of the Midlands area branch of the British Caravanners Club elect a different charity each year to benefit from its bottle fund. In 1985 the RNLI was chosen and members donated £173; included in this amount was £73.80... - View image in PDF
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Easter falls on a beach As the 2006 lifeguarding season got off to a brisk start, Perranporth beach unusually saw two incidents involving horse riders within a week. On Maundy Thursday, a woman was thrown from her galloping horse when it was...