LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 22nd August, 1933.
Paid £20,466 10s. lid. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
Category: Services
Somehow Brian Carrick Manager of Richmond Branch of the Trustee Savings Bank
Somehow, Brian Carrick, manager of Richmond branch of the Trustee Savings Bank, was persuaded to take part in a sponsored knit-in. He is seen here getting the hang of it before the event and the practice evidently paid off as he raised more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mohegan
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. —• A disaslrous shipwreck occurred on the Manacle rocks, near the Lizard, on thenight of the 14th October, involving the lamentable loss of 106 lives. The s.s.
Mohegan, of Hull, a large four-masted...
A German Messerschmitt Pilot His Head Bandaged Because of An Injury Being Landed By the Dungeness Lifeboat on October 7 1940
A German Messerschmitt pilot, his head bandaged because of an injury, being landed by the Dungeness lifeboat on October 7, 1940.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboatmen and Fishermen By Colin Ashford
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
Category: Articles
The Breadth of the Life-Boat Appeal
By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
at , by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, gt all to whom these Presents shall come Whereas the late SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, Baronet; the late MR. THOMAS WILSON, Member of...
Category: Advertisement
The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glendarroch
BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...