LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Review
review by John francis, lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Honorary Secretary
I have had the privilege of evaluating the DVD version of this archive of 580 issues ofthe Lifeboat and found it very easy to use. There are...
Category: Articles
Remaining Silent for An Hour a Jumble Sale a Raffle for a Giant Rabbit 'Harvey' and a Sponsored Walk to Corfe Castle and Back Were All Ways That the Children of St.Mary's Church Sunday School
Remaining silent for an hour, a jumble sale, a raffle for a giant rabbit, 'Harvey', and a sponsored walk to Corfe Castle and back, were all ways that the children of St Mary's Church Sunday School, Swanage, raised money for their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cb Or Vhp? from Page 51
We must remember that, by and large, the area covered by a local REACT organisation will be governed by the range of its equipment. This area can of course be extended by relaying emergency messages on CB from user to user until they reach...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th December, 1861. THOMAS CHAPHAN, Esq., F.B.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Four Crews from Guide and Scout Groups In Northampton
Twenty-four crews from guide and scout groups in Northampton took part in a rowing relay along the River Nenefrom Northampton to Peterborough, a distance of 60.3 miles, with 22 locks to negotiate. The first crew (above) were sent on their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The news that a relative of the Fish family is working on a biography of Coxswain Charles Fish, the famous Ramsgate lifeboat men
the news that a relative of the Fish family is working on a biography of Coxswain Charles Fish, the famous Ramsgale lifeboat men who is associated with the wreck of the Indian Chief in 1881, comes a picture of David Fish, great grandson. He... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Motor Anti-Submarine Boat No. 25. and another Motor Boat
JANUARY 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A quarter of an hour after midnight a message came from Dover that two motor boats were aground near the East Goodwins, 2 1/4 miles from the No. 2 Buoy. The motor lifeboat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service...
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths.
May 1979 Robert Johnson, motor mechanic of Longhope lifeboat from 1929 to 1965.
Bob Johnson first went out in the lifeboat in 1916 and served...
Category: Obituaries