LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN BENSLEY, on his retirement, after serving 3 additional years as Coxswain of the Gorleston No. 2 Life-boat when the No. 2 Station was temporarily re-opened, an in- crease of his Pension and a Certificate of Service. Bensley had...
Category: Awards
Prize Winning Essay
Miss GILLIAN ELLIOTT, of Palsgrave County Modern School, Scarborough, Yorkshire, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition was open to boys and girls up...
Category: Articles
An art for all seasons
What home is complete without a seascape on the wall?
The sea provides a backdrop to all our lives – even in our homes, for we seem to have an indefatigable appetite for seascapes. Romance, beauty, danger and power are all...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
AN ALL-TIME RECORD was chalked up in January by Shoreline at the London Boat Show RNLI stand. During the 11 days of the show 907 new members signed on: 25 life governors, 80 governors, 306 family members and 496 ordinary full members. This...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Bodmin Lower School (Comprehensive), which is particularly interested in Padstow lifeboat, arranged a sponsored tables contest—the 2 x 2 = 4 kind—in aid of the RNLI just before Christmas. Younger children had to learn tables up to 10 x 12...
Category: Donations
Letters
Steadfast indeed I hope my comments will not throw your administration into a whirl, but being an ex-member of the Boys' Brigade and a Governor of the RNLI for many years, I was surprised to see in the latest Lifeboat that the new...
Category: Correspondence
Pastime
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.50 A.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, a message was received from the Wyre lightkeepers, through the harbour authorities, that a motor boat was in difficulties about a quarter of a mile from King's...
Capwood
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 1.50 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of March, 1951, Sark sent a message that the motor boat Capwood, of Guernsey, had left Guernsey for Sark at 11.15 that morning with sixteen people, but had not arrived. At 2.15...
Awards to Honorary Workers
The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to : Mr. J. G. McMoRRis, on his retirement after 24 years as honorary secretary of the Portrush...
Category: Awards
Cevic
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 12.22 A.M.
on the 27th December, 1938, information was received from the coastguard that a ship was ashore at Greencastle.
A moderate W.N.W. wind was blowing, with heavy squalls of...