LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Under Starter's Orders
Pictured at the start of the race are, standing left to right: Mr R. Vivian May, a member of the fund raising committee and deputy president of Bridport branch, the director and Mrs Joan Best, president of Beaminster branch. Kneeling left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dry Run for a Lifeboat!
Dry run for a lifeboat! Members of Ramsey rugby club, along with other RNLI supporters from the Abbey Hotel, set off to pull a D class lifeboat through the town centre on Ramsey branch flag day. The treasurer, Jim Holloway, was kept busy all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
Last word
Our social media users have been busy sharing their support – especially for a very special fundraiser. If you'd like to get in touch too, write to us using the details at the front of the magazine, or get involved with our...
Category: Articles
Champion, of Liverpool
At day- light on the 20th December a vessel, which proved to be the schooner Champion, of Liverpool, timber laden, was observed off the Scarweather Sands, with mainmast gone and signals of distress flying, it blowing a strong gale from N. W....
Catherine, of Liverpool
On the llth June, during a fresh gale of wind from the north, the sloop Catherine, of Liverpool, was observed in a dismasted state, with signals of distress flying, about 4 miles off this place. The Rhyl tubular life-boat went off, and...
Ada
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—The Life-boat Henry Dundaa put off at about 11 A.M. on the 1st February, and for some hours remained by the ketch Ada, of Gloucester, which had anchored in a bad position in St.
Mary's...
A Life-Boat Subscription Record?
DURING the nine months ending the 30th September, 1919, the town of Alloa, in Clackmannanshire, raised for the Institution a sum of £301. As Alloa has a population of 12,000, this works out at a contribution of 6d. a head. This record...
Category: Donations
Mynonie R. Kirby
St. Mary's, Scillies.—On the 28th November the schooner Mynonie R.
Kirby, of London, was in distress and the motor life-boat rescued the crew of six.—Rewards, bronze medal, thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum,...