LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) to Celebrate His 65Th Birthday and 50 Years of Lifeboat Service a Special Cake and Presentations for Alfred Payne Westonsuper- Mare's Coxswain from 1948 to 197
(Below) To celebrate his 65th birthday and 50 years of lifeboat service, a special cake and presentations for Alfred Payne, Westonsuper- Mare's coxswain from 1948 to 1970.
Mr Payne had been second coxswain before that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition
THE third year of the Essay Competition has brought a number of interesting and very readable essays, and although scarcely up to the excellent standard of the first two years, it can be said that only in a few cases did they fail to show an...
Category: Articles
Mine of information
The Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook 2013 is now available, priced £6.50 (including postage and packaging). The booklet details in full the all-weather lifeboat fleet both current and past, together with listings of inshore...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
Category: Articles
Children of Tain Playgroup and Nursery Unit
Sing a song of sixpence: the magic of nursery rhymes is certainly not lost on the children of Tain playgroup and nursery unit. They took part in a sponsored nursery rhyme recital and raised a magnificent £1,045 for Invergordon lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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The following information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service
The fill/owing information is published as received: 'The Eastney, Hampshire, lifeboat —the last .tailing and pulling boat on station with the RNLI—photographed on return from a service in which it towed in the three Royal Nary inshore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sprite' the Lifeboat's Mascot (Provided By Osbornes for All Lifeboats Built By the Yard) Watches Over the Inside Steering Position With Its Engine Controls and Electroni
'Sprite', the lifeboat's mascot (provided by Osbornes for all lifeboats built by the yard) watches over the inside steering position with its engine controls and electronics.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services
Hermes of Lune
Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...