LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Mr. E. B. PBOCTOB, upon his resignation after 12 years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Abetdovey Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To Mrs. A. C. PARKY, in recognition of her '...
Category: Awards
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.
From 1890 to 1901 he...
Category: Obituaries
A Special £1 Draw
A special £1 draw was organised for this magnificent cake made in the shape of Exmouth lifeboat, just one of the attractions at a dance at Langslone Cliff Hotel, Dawlish, organised by 13 of the water sport clubs on the River Exe. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pilot Me
JAN. 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon a gale was blowing from the N.N.W. with a heavy sea. The motor fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea and as she did not return the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Fishing Boats (6)
OCT. 26TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the fishing fleet put to sea.
By 8.10 A.M. several of the boats had returned.
A fresh to strong breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, and some of the...
A year with the Yorkshire
The RNLI is Yorkshire Building Society group's Charity of the Year for 2012. Staff and customers at more than 200 branches of Yorkshire, Chelsea and Barnsley Building Societies will raise money for lifeboat crew and lifeguard training....
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (14)
JULY 28TH . - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane which had on board the Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, making for Belfast, was reported as missing.
She had last been seen out at sea three miles S.S.E....
Book Corner
• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.
Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...
Category: Articles
Richard Dimbleby's Appeal
[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
Category: Articles
Fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference Gothenburg By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
HUMANITY . . . courage . . . dedication.
These words must have equivalents in every language and they were used repeatedly by delegates from all over the world at the fourteenth International Lifeboat Conference (ILC) in...
Category: Articles