LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Bishop's Interest
AN exercise of the life-boat at Barra Island was held in November, 1951, during a visit to the island of the Bishop of Argyll and Isles. This was his first trip in a life-boat.
The bishop had been very anxious to make it,...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medal for a Shore-Boat Service
THE Bronze Medal has been awarded to Thomas Boyle, of Seafield, Quilty, Co.
Clare, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to two other men for their gallantry in rescuing three men who had lost their boat and were marooned on...
Category: Services
Jane and Ellen
RUNSWICK.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N.E., with a heavy sea,on the 5th November, the schooner Jane and Ellen, of and for Whitby, from Seaham, with a cargo of coal, lost her sails and became unmanageable. She showed signals of...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
Category: Advertisement
Squirrel Tales
AVAILABLE in a special memorial issue is the late Minnie Mitchelson Goodall's bright humane story, "Tales Told by a Squirrel", the royalties of which go to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Ideal for young folk, the...
Category: Advertisement
Obituary
Commander Alphonsus J. O'B. Twohig, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A. died on 3ist July, 1967, at the age of 73. From February, 1951, to February, 1961, Commander Twohig was honourary treasurer of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Unflagging Support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (R)
Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.
Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harriet Masser from Windsor
Not wanting to see a bumper crop of apples from the garden go to waste, Harriet Masser from Windsor made herself a poster, washed all the apples and placed them in a basket on her doorstep, asking passers-by to put donations for the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Osman Gabriel
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries
Stowmarket and Needham Market Branch
Suitable arrangements: just one of the 20 displays at the Festival of Howers organised by Stowmarket and Needham Market branch with the help of Aldeburgh, Southwold and Lowestoft lifeboat stations. The festival was a four-day event and as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs