LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pye Telecommunications
Pye Telecom breaks the silence barrier.
Without instant communication you cannot properly cope with today's changing situations. Two-way radio communication via Pye personal and mobile radiotelephones keeps you off the...
Category: Advertisement
The Humber
THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE On the 12th February, 1940, the Humber life-boat rescued the crew of nine of the steam trawler Gurth, of Grimsby.
COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC JOHN...
Category: Medals
The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
The Gathering at Walford School Ealing for the Cheque Handing-Over (See Below) the School Has Adopted the Whitstable IRB
The gathering at Walford School, Ealing, for the cheque handing-over (see below). The school has adopted the Whitstable IRB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER DRURY has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats for the Eastern district.
Commander Vaux was educated at the Rojral Naval Colleges of...
Category: Articles
The Time
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—Signals of distress were seen flying from a ketch three miles N.E. of Winterton, during a severe storm and a very heavy sea, at about 2.30 P.M. on the 14th October. The Winterton No. 2 Life-boat, the Husband, proceeded to...
Rescue In Thick Fog Off the Orkneys
THE first news that the steam trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, was in dis- tress to reach a life-boat station came in the form of a message from the Wick coastguard to the Thurso, Caithness-shire, honorary...
Category: Services
The Skeleton
All that remained of the Olive a few days later.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Appeal of the Press
THE urgent appeal which the Prince of Wales made in his Presidential Address for increased financial support of the Life-boat Service was taken up at once in the Press, and a number of papers supported and reiterated the appeal in their...
Category: Articles