LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ever Ready — Kent Ferry Exercise
The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
Category: Articles
Willowbrook
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Category: Advertisement
Armistice Day
AT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and at Whitby, Yorkshire, the Motor Lifeboats took part in the Armistice Day ceremonies on November llth last, and at Heck- mondwike, Yorkshire, the twenty-five members of the Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Rnli Kensington
RNLI Symbol Sweater This unique sweater in navy courtelle or botany wool has the RNLI symbol woven in.
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1868
As the year rolls round, and in the midst of great storms, this sad tidings of disaster; at sea, the Wreck Register, makes its ap- pearance, and brings afresh to our recollec- tion the scenes of desolation witnessed on too many parts of our...
Category: Annual Reports
Bookshelf
Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
1st July to 30th September.
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special Life-boat Display at the Pavilion Theatre in connexion with the showing of the film " Atlantic " and collections organized by the...
Category: Branches
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Lady Gay
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1953, H.M. Customs telephoned to say that a boat was ashore near St. Anthony Lighthouse. The life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the station, put to sea at nine...
An Aeroplane (27)
JULY 14TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £9 10s. 6d..