LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Walter Cox
No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In 1961
Date Station 1961 Jan. 1 Weymouth 4 Kirkcudbright 4 Penlee 5 Troon 6 Scarborough 6 Troon ..
„ 6 Weymouth ,, 6 Dover 6 Whitby „ 7 Maltaig 9 Wick ,, 11 Lerwick 12 Padstow No. 1 12 Arklow 13...
Category: Services
The British Merchant Seaman
"THE British seaman, though, he might be better, has not grown worse, and is plentiful enough for the requirements of trade." "No case is made out for the inter- ference of Government to increase the number, or improve the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Worthwhile find Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the...
Category: Correspondence
Putting the Finishing Touch a Thin Red Line to One of the ' Year of the Lifeboat' Commemorative Mugs Made By Wedgwood on Show at Earls Court They Are Available Fr
Putting the finishing touch, a thin red line, to one of the ' Year of the Lifeboat' commemorative mugs made by Wedgwood. On show at Earls Court, they are available from Wedgwood Shop, 249 Oxford Street, London, Wl, price £4.20... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
Diana V
Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...
Michael Lenegham BEM
Michael Lenegham BEM, coxswain of Newcastle, Co. Down lifeboat for 26 years and a lifeboatman for more than 40 years. He served as second coxwain from 1950 until 1961 before taking over as coxwain, having first joined the crew in 1946, aged...
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th December, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.
CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...
Category: Articles