LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Not Everyone Who Buys a Special Excursion Train Ticket to London
Not everyone who buys a special excursion train ticket to London from Liverpool costing £7 finds herself arriving at Euston station heralded by Royal Marine trumpeters and the winner of a two-week Mediterranean cruise for two people. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Frederick Warne
THE BOOK OF SEA RESCUE Laurence F Gilding An authoritative account of all the organisations formed to help those in danger of drowning, with exciting ac- counts of some famous rescues. 10s 6d OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS Frank E Dodman A...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—Very heavy '.
seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
Category: Services
Scarborough Evening News Man on the Spot on 7Th August Was Chief Photographer Jay Mason—He Was Taking Pictures of Filey Life-Boat's Demonstration Launch When a Real Rescue Came Up. Th
Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal for a Shore-Boat Case
ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
Category: Medals
When He Landed This 21 Pound Salmon
When he landed this 21 pound salmon, Commander William Donald, chairman of Keswick branch, was so pleased that he sent the equivalent amount in sterling to the RNLI. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of P. Haworth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To JOHN MATTHEWS, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain and 2| years as bowman of the Moelfre life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To WILLIAM II....
Category: Awards
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 THE TRUE MEASURE OF SUCCESS — 1,038 LIVES SAVED IN 1975 THOSE MARVELLOUSLY UNDER-STATED CITATIONS . . .' Thus Raymond Baxter put into words the feelings of the crowded Royal Festival Hall on the...
Category: Meetings
The Royal Bank of Scotland
And how would Sir like to pay? A Lifeboats MasterCard will do nicely.
Because if you switch from your current credit card to a Lifeboats MasterCard today, you could help the RNLI buy the essential items...
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