LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tony Purnell,
Tony Purnell, Woodbridge and District branch press officer from 1984 to 1995.
Tony was a committee member of Maldon branch from 1958to 1967 and station administration officer of West Mersea station branch from 1967 to...
Category: Obituaries
Two Silver Awards
At the recent Hitchin and district branch AGM, Laura Fagg, senior area organiser for the Eastern region, presented silver badges to two committee stalwarts - souvenir secretary Mollie Russell and branch secretary Phil Parrish - for their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Jean Farrell.
October Mrs Jean Farrell. secretary of Amlwrch and district branch on Anglesey. She joined the branch in 1979 acting as assistant souvenir secretary and became secretary in 1994. Mrs Farrell was awarded the Statuette in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
News from the Branches
Hull's Special Report.
AT the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held on 31st March, the Lord Mayor (Councillor Digby Willoughby), one of; the Presidents of the Branch, proposed that Hull should make a special effort to...
Category: Branches
Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick Lifeboat Stations Shetland By Joan Davies
THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...
Category: Articles
John Russell
John Russell, with his dog Glen, is pictured after an exhausting day's trialling at the Newhaven and District Lifeboat Society's sheep dog trials in August 1987. John and Glen won the RNLI Trophy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Board the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It Took Shoreline Member John Simpson 12 Weeks to Grow a Beard Six Centimeters Long; Sponsorship for This Growth Industry Brought In £76 on the Night the Beard Was Somewhat Recklessly Re
It took Shoreline member John Simpson 12 weeks to grow a beard six centimeters long; sponsorship for this growth industry brought in £76. On the night the beard was, somewhat recklessly, removed a further £94 was raised for Yeovil... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pollard Presents
Frampton Cotterell and district branch together with Homeworld invited actor Chris Chittell, otherwise known as Eric Pollard of television's Emmerdale to present the prizes in a local school lifeboat painting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meeting
THE hundred and twelfth Annual Meeting of the governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, 6th May. Some 1,800 people were present.
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., as...
Category: Meetings