LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
Gateshead.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
BOURNEMOUTH.—On 2nd February, 1923, the Mayor (Alderman. C. H. Cartwright) in the chair. The report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, showed that the total receipts amounted to £590, as...
Category: Branches
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, Cheshire. After serving for ten months as second coxswain of the neighbouring station of Hilbre Island, Coxswain Jones became second coxswain at Hoylake in 1920. He served...
Category: Articles
Above: the Pilot's View
Above: The pilot's view as he approaches his target. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Raising the Dough
Six year old Alexandra Avern presented a coffee jar containing £6.50 to Leamington Spa branch treasurer Tony Avern (the second name is not a coincidence, Tony is her uncle!). Alexandra is a keen lifeboat supporter and member of Storm... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By BARBARA BULL (14J), Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants.
The Qualities that make THE Vikings of old were children of the sea, loving the waves they fought and conquered, but as cruel as the surging waters they...
Category: Articles
The President Garfield
The ketch Presi- dent Garfield, of Bidef ord, was proceeding to sea from Bude at about 8.40 A.M. on the 14th March, in a moderate N.E.
breeze and considerable ground swell.
On the vessel reaching the bar,...
The Bull Light-Vessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.45 P.M. on the same day, the 21st October, 1937, the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was again launched, as the life-boat watchman reported that two maroons had been fired in the direction of the Bull...
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.55 on the night of the 17th of July, 1950, the coast- guard received a message from the .Superintendent, Trinity House, Cowes, that the master of the Owers light- vessel was ill with suspected appendi- citis. At 11.25...