LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ways and Means
Turning turf into money If your branch has a small racecourse in its territory it can be a money spinner.
I say small because our branch also has a large course within its boundaries, but as a fund raising area it is dead...
Category: Donations
Awards to St. Ives for the Service to the Alba
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
Category: Awards
Capsizing Tests on 44-002
As we closed for press the life-boat 44-002 John F. Kennedy, the first of the Institution's fleet of six 44-ft. steel life-boats, was undergoing trials at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Here she is shown during capsizing and self-righting tests at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wrestling With the Raging Sea
The RNLI provides its volunteers with the best lifeboats, equipment and training for the job, and so it must. But sometimes, nothing is a match for the sheer ferocity of NatureWhen a lifeboat crew launch to the rescue, their own safety is...
Category: Articles
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 512 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
Category: Contents
The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
by Roger Mansfield,
edited by Sam Bleakley
and Chris Power
Review by Liz Cook
This is no simple coffee-table beauty,...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
Category: Articles
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans ____ The only plan recommended by your local SAIF Independent Funeral Director THE CARING APPRO "UJJl THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think...
Category: Advertisement
Barking for Brass
Cuchulainn the Irish Wolfhound and owner Julie Burden, are keen collectors on Peel branch flag day. When Julie, whose husband is a crew member of Peel lifeboat, invites members of the public to contribute no one ever refuses - Cuchulainn... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rewards for Belgian Fishermen
Two Belgian fishermen at Lytham-St, Anncs went out to the help of a capsized dinghy and, with great difficulty, rescued three men clinging to the keel.
They have been rewarded..
Category: Articles