LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934
1st November, 1933, to 31st January, 1934.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.
CROYDON.—Lantern lectures at Wood- side by Mr. F. C. Ashby and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
Category: Articles
December
Launches 49 Lives rescued 252
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...
Category: Services
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE sixth Christmas Party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the staff at Head- quarters, to poor children of Poplar, took place on 4th January at the Bromley Public Hall. There were 170 children present....
Category: Articles
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra Were Among Passengers Who Had to Be Rescued from the Ferry Winston Churchill When She Ran Aground In Gothenberg Sweden Last Summer Th
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra were among passengers who had to be rescued from the ferry Winston Churchill when she ran aground in Gothenberg, Sweden, last summer. The conductor, Malcolm Doley, is pictured here with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Take your seat
It’s coming up to the time of year when we celebrate the skill and bravery of our voluntary crew and the dedication of RNLI supporters at the Annual Presentation of Awards. It’s all happening at the Barbican Hall, London, on 23 May 2013. The...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 86. Lives rescued 90., September Meeting.
St. Ives, Cornwall.—Early on the morning of the 1st July the coastguard reported that a steamer was ashore near Pendeen. She was the Italian steamer Aida Lauro, of...
Category: Services
Awards to Life-Boat Workers
MR. J. W. EAGLE, J.P., of Walton and Frinton, MR. P. BRUCE LAURENSON, L.D.S.(Edin.), of Lerwick, and LADY ROWALLAN, of Kilmarnock, have all been accorded the highest distinction which the Royal National Life-boat Institution can confer on an...
Category: Awards
Bayadere, of Rouen
About nine P.M. on the 1st December, the barque Bayadere, of Rouen, parted from her anchors, and struck on the rocks near the lighthouse, at Holyhead.
It was blowing at the time a most terrific gale from the N. The Princess...