LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barmouth: Crew Member John H Stockford Honorary Medical Adviser and Crew Member Dr Robert Airdrie Haworth and Motor Mechanic Colin Pugh Are Presented to The
Barmouth: Crew Member John H. Stockford, Honorary Medical Adviser, and Crew Member Dr Robert Airdrie Haworth and Motor Mechanic Colin Pugh are presented to the Duke of Kent. They were the first ILB silver medallists: the awards were made for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Farewell. Memories of Sixty Years
1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
Category: Articles
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? IF you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to Fund the RINLI with every transaction you make.
Category: Advertisement
Profile of the Offshore Fleet
Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 15th day of March, 1864, the Eight Honourable Sir JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Freemen of the Sea, By Dora Walker
Freemen of the Sea, by Dora Walker (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., B.C. 1. 10/6) Miss DORA WALKER, who is president of the Whitby Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has written a charming anecdotal book about the seafarers of Whitby; a series of...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Surf And Turf A fundraising evening organised by the Campbeltown ladies lifeboat guild was a great success thanks to a fashion show of Douglas Gill's sailing and outdoor clothes and a fascinating talk from Tony Lambert, horticulturist...
Category: Articles
County Associations
As already mentioned, one of the chief features of this Journal will be to bring into prominent notice the several County Asso- ciations and Local Committees that have long existed around our coasts, and to urge on the well-wishers to the...
Category: Articles
Letters
Bravery endures Thank you for the autumn issue of the magazine.
The article on Henry Shrimp Davies was of great interest to me: my brother was a crew member of the SS English Trader on that fateful night and at the age of...
Category: Correspondence
Weathering St Jude
As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases
It was expected to be the...
Category: Articles