LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 14TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. Airmen from a crashed bombing aeroplane had landed on a sandbank, but were rescued by another vessel before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £15 16s.
Ceremonies
New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...
Category: Inaugurations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 20th November, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Passed Votes of Thanks to H.M. the KING and QUEEN, H.R.H. the PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., and H.R.H. the PRINCESS LOUISE, DUCHESS OF...
Category: Committee
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY MAY 16 TRIUMPH IN THE FACE OF A MOST TESTING WINTER 'GOOD MORNING, AND WELCOME . . .' The annual general meeting of governors of the RNLI, held this year for the first time in the Purcell Room of the...
Category: Meetings
In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
The Auxiliary Gaff Yawl Duet
MAINMAST SNAPS IN TALL SHIPS RACE St. Peter Port, Guernsey. On the 14th August, 1962, the 50-foot auxiliary gaff yawl Duet had been taking part in the Tall Ships Race and was about twentyfive miles off the west coast of Guernsey on the way...
Special Appeals
SPECIAL APPEALS Just before the AGM at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on May 21 (which will be reported fully in the Autumn issue), Mr Roy Bailhache, Chairman of the Jersey branch, presented a cheque for £100,000—the largest single...
Category: Articles
Ira (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. On I4th February, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary was asked by the agents of the trawler Ira to lay an anchor and stand by while an attempt was made to refloat the vessel. At noon the life-boat...
Coxswain Colin Harrison of the Runswick Yorkshire
Coxswain Colin Harrison, of the Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat, was drowned in June when his coble capsized.
His son Colin, aged 12, was, however, found unconscious in the sea but revived..
Category: Obituaries
Royal Doulton
Royal Doulton is proud to announce atone JBolejm A limited edition fine china sculpture which captures the spirit and beauty of a defiant queen She was queen for only a thousand days, yet her spirit was to outlive the king who executed...
Category: Advertisement