LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Visitors Looking Round the Lobster Holding Tanks at Padstow Are Encouraged to Give to the Rnli Gil Lobb Whose Tanks They Are Is Seen Here Being Presented With a Plaque By Coxswain Trevor E
Visitors looking round the lobster holding tanks at Padstow are encouraged to give to the RNLI. Gil Lobb, whose tanks they are, is seen here being presented with a plaque by Coxswain Trevor England for his efforts, which this year alone, up... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cromer Lifeboat Museum: Don Harvev (I) the Honorary Curator and Jim Smith Station Honorary Secretary With Some of the Piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg
Cromer lifeboat museum: Don Harvev (I.), the honorary curator, and Jim Smith, station honorary secretary, with some of the piclures of Coxswain Henry Blogg.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
And Now
Last year marked the centenary of the loss of Margate rescue surf boat Friend to all nations along with nine of her crew. The surfboat was operated by a group of local boatmen in tandem with the RNLI lifeboat - generally the same men would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930. Presentation of Prizes In the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 20th October, the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) pre- sided at the presentation of the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...
Category: Donations
The National Lifeboat Museum at Princes Wharf Wapping Road Bristol
The National Lifeboat Museum at Princes Wharf, Wapping Road, Bristol, is being opened at weekends this summer with a temporary exhibition occupying a quarter of the available area.
Among the exhibits are a Weyburn engine,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Dr Margaret Shimmin Honorary Medical Adviser With (I) Coxswain Kenneth Henry and (R) Second Coxswain William Anderson
(Below) Dr Margaret Shimmin, honorary medical adviser, with (I.) Coxswain Kenneth Henry and (r.) Second Coxswain William Anderson. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Aberdeen Journals. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Busy Christmas
CHRISTMAS was a busy time for the life-boat service. On Christmas Eve the motor life-boats at St. Abbs (Ber- wickshire), Blyth (Northumberland), Sunderland (Durham) and Falmouth (Cornwall) were all launched on service, and the motor...
Category: Articles
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. The Rescue of Three Bathers at Port William
ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services