LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER V F U N E R A L PLANS The only plan recommended by your local SAIF Independent Funeral Director THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd...
Category: Advertisement
Ceremonies
The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...
Category: Inaugurations
Six Days Aboard Welsh Life-Boats
FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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Chairman—SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK...
Category: Advertisement
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
The lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds flew, Oh, wife ! from the shores they cry,' One more,' With strong, steady hand and true! There are lives to save On the frothing wave— One more for the...
Category: Poetry
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...
Category: Services
A New Fast Type of Motor Life-Boat
Ax important development in Motor Life-boat construction has been decided upon. The aim of the Institution in the design and construction of Motor Lifeboats and their engines, suitable,for the work of rescuing life from shipwreck under all...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th June, 1866. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
(Below Left) Time for a Break
(below left) Time for a break - summoned by the foghorn the Portacabin soon fills up…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medal for Second Coxswain. Four Rescued from Yacht
THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...
Category: Services