LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inlland Rover
Llandudno, with its hillclimbing trams and snowless ski slope, is something of a wonderland. So it may come as no surprise that the lifeboat station is in a rather unusual place and needs a tractor and Land Rover to tow the lifeboats half a...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th May, 1902.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The R.N.L.I. Maintains a Fleet of Reserve Life-Boats, and Last Year Boats Built As Far Back As 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1939 Were Included.
The R.N.L.I. maintains a fleet of reserve life-boats, and last year boats built as far back as 1930, 1933, 1935 and 1939 were included. It is after a period in the reserve fleet that such life-boats are put up for private sale. The life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Special Life-Boat Funds
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND.
Patron— His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS. K.G.
Vice-Patrons— The Most Hon. the MARQUIS OF Ripon, K.O.
The Right Hon. ARTHUR J. BALFOUR,...
Category: Accounts
Classifieds
FOR SALE Advertising pencils, superb ball pens, combs, brushes, each gold stamped Life-boat name, etc., raise funds, quickly, easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples. Northern Novelties, Bradford 2 (BD2 3AF).
Fund raising with 200%...
Category: Advertisement
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 52 Number 521 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: CLAIRE JUDD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI...
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People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Youngest crew member? Jonathan Foster achieved a long-held ambition when he joined the crew of Staithes lifeboat - the Atlantic 21 Ellis Sinclair-on his 17th birthday .
Clem James, station honorary...
Category: Articles
Maggie Simons (left) Receives A Travelscope Bear For Winning At Deck Quoits
Maggie Simons (left) receives a Travelscope bear for winning at deck quoits. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walter Stanley (Jim) Firman
Walter Stanley (Jim) Firman, Scarborough tractor driver from 1952 to 1969, after serving as tractor driver helper from 1949 to 1952; during that time he was never known to miss launch or recovery. On his retirement at 65, Jim Firman sold...
Category: Obituaries
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat,
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat, The Duchess of Kent, heads out into a gale and mountainous seas. In escorting one fishing vessel back to harbour and in plucking the crew of another to safety after their yawl had been rolled onto... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs