LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr David F Aubrey Honorary Secretary of the Port Talbot Ilb Station Writes: "The Mayor on December 8 1972 Invited the Crew for Tea In His Parlour
Mr David F. Aubrey, honorary secretary of the Port Talbot ILB station, writes: "The Mayor on December 8, 1972, invited the crew for tea in his parlour, and during the afternoon lie agreed to sign up for Shoreline and gave the project... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stepping up! Three members of the Bridllngton lifeboat crew
Stepping up! Three members of the Bridllngton lifeboat crew were kepi on their toes when they were persuaded to join delegates from the Yorkshire and Humberside region of the Keep Fit Association for some aerobic high kicks during a break... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ramsgate's Coat of Arms
THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has...
Category: Articles
Mary, Duchess of Montrose
MARY, DUCHESS OF MONTROSE, who died in February, 1957, had been made an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, the highest award conferred on an honorary worker, in 1955. She had been president of the Arran Ladies' Life-boat Guild...
Category: Obituaries
A year of lifesaving
RNLI lifeboats launched an amazing 8,141 times in 2007, rescuing 7,834 people around the UK and RoI. RNLI lifeguards on 71 English beaches rescued 1,350 people and responded to 8,201 incidents. The charity’s Flood Rescue team (previously the...
Category: Articles
Star of the West
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 30th July, at 4.30 A.M., during a strong N. wind and heavy sea, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched in reply to signal-guns fired from the Gull light-ship. On arriving at the Goodwin Sands, the schooner...
Stormcock, of Padstow
JULY 13TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 9.15 in the evening the Hartland Point coastguard reported a cabin cruiser apparently broken down, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat City of Nottingham was launched in a moderate north-westerly wind, with a...
Eriksborg, of Landskrona
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At eleven in the morning a message from a doctor, through a local shipping agent, asked for the services of the life-boat to land a man who had been seriously injured on board the Swedish steamer Eriksborg, of...
RNLI to Benefit from a Commercial Card
The life-boat service is to benefit from a Christmas card attractively illus- trated by a reproduction of a painting by Richard Eurich, R.A., showing the Britannia lying off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Through the generosity of the owner of the...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.
THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...
Category: Articles