LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chip and Who?
No, not the real Chippendales! These are actually members of Peterhead lifeboat crew doing a good imitation while modelling at the recent fashion show organised by Peterhead ladies' guild. Thanks to Mackays Stores and all the willing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
French Trawler Keriolet Towed Back In Llfracombe In Storm Force Winds By Charles H Barrett (Civil Service No 35) Clovelly's 70' Clyde Class Lifeboat Photograph By Co
French trawler Kcriolct, towed back In llfracombe in storm force winds by Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), Clovelly's 70' Clyde class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of D. S. Evans. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Cruisers Kon Tiki and Thyl and Fraeya
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.49 on the morn- ing of the ]4th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen from a vessel between Gull Stream Buoy and North Goodwin Buoy. At 5.2 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out....
A Pontoon and a Launch
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that Messrs. Wimpey had requested the help of the life-boat, as one of their pontoons two miles north of Hartlepool was...
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats. Holyhead, Skegness, Fleetwood, St. Ives, and Anstruther
Holyhead, Skegness, Fleetwood, St. Ives, and Anstruther.
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat stationed at Holyhead (Anglesey), took place on 13th June, in the presence of some 2,000 people.
Category: Inaugurations
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Days In 1944
In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special meeting. Branch formed. Lieut.-Colonel G. F. Doland, O.B.E., J.P., M.P., L.CC., patron; the Mayor of Wandsworth, president; Kngr. Rear-Admiral W. M. Whayman, C.B., Councillor Evan Rees, M.I.G...
Category: Branches
As a Forerunner to 'Operation Lifeboat' Devon Scouts Visited Plymouth Lifeboat Station on December 8 1973 When They Were Taken Out In Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse
As a forerunner to 'Operation Lifeboat', Devon Scouts visited Plymouth lifeboat station on December 8, 1973, when they were taken out in Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse for practical demonstrations: on steering. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
Category: Services