LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norfolk-Based Artist Mick Bensley
Norfolk-based artist Mick Bensley puts the finishing touches to one of the 40 watercolours of lifeboat rescues to be featured in a oneman exhibition at the Picturecraft Gallery, Holt, Norfolk from Mav 28 to June 2 this year. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
But I Know a Man Who Does
A new way of dealing with breakdowns! Local staff members of the Automobile Association and their wives took up the strain before setting out from Lisburn to Belfast on their sponsored lorry pull in aid of the RNLI. (Photo Belfast Telegraph)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) 'It's a Bit Big Mum!'
(Above) 'It's a bit big Mum!' The competition to dress up in lifeboatman's gear is always popular - even if the stores can't supply quite the right size.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bottom, Opposite: Tower Lifeboat Station Moved to Lifeboat Pier Earlier This Year
Bottom, opposite: Tower lifeboat station moved to Lifeboat Pier earlier this year thanks to funding from the Civil Service Lifeboat Fund, Northwood Golf Club, Pettswood fundraising branch, the Albert Hunt Charitable Trust and legacies from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
A Fishing Boat (4)
MARCH 30TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A fishing boat. had been reported missing, but the life-boat could not find her. Later, wreckage was found. The boat must have been lost with both the men on board.- Rewards, £36 13s. 2d...
A Vessel (17)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The life-boat helped in bringing wounded men ashore from a vessel.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk,” page 80..
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
Star Support
EastEnders star Andrew Lynford (AKA Walford's Simon Raymond), together with the two ugly sisters, gave his support to the lifeboats at Weston Super Mare recently during the town's 1999 Winter carnival.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr James Daniel,
January 1999 Mr James Daniel, St Ives chairman. Mr Daniel joined the station committee in 1953 and was chairman from 1956 until 1988. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1980 and the Gold badge in 1984..
Category: Obituaries