LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Unsung Heroes: Frances Hudson
A volunteer describes her recent experience helping to preserve old photographs for future generations
What is your role?
I’ve been cleaning and digitising glass plates, part of a large collection of old lifeboat...
Category: Articles
It's a Small World.
It's a small world. Reader S.
Johnson discovered that the custodian of Ivan Talley (an ex-RNLI lifeboat now working in New Zealand) was a friend of a relative.
His grandsons are pictured aboard the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Life-Boat
OUR boat lies up yonder; She 's the pride of the place; To man her 's our duty, All perils to face.
Across the dark ocean We fearlessly ride; To save life in danger We scorn the fierce tide.
Hark! ...
Category: Poetry
Fishing Cobles
On the 4th March between twenty and thirty fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin, carrying crews of about eighty men and boys, were placed in jeopardy by the sudden springing up of a gale of wind from S. by E. with a rough...
Miss Jane Leresche, of Seaford
Miss Jane Leresche, who died in October, 1937, had been the honorary secretary of the Seaford branch for nearly ten years, and before that the assistant honorary secretary for over four years. During her honorary sec- retaryship the branch...
Category: Obituaries
A Cabin Cruiser
ON FIRE At 2.31 p.m. on 29th April, 1965, the motor mechanic observed a cabin cruiser on fire about two miles off shore. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 2.35 and...
Life-Boat Workers of Surrey
Top: Presentation of ILB at Reigate and Redhill Branch life-boat evening by Mr. G. A. Hodgkins, vice-president, Reigate Sea Cadets, the boat being stationed at Humbermouth, Yorks. (From leftto right): Commander J. D. Walters, R.N. (retd.);... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway Bay - At 9.15 p.m. on loth July, 1966, the life-boat was requested to convey a seriously ill man to hospital on the mainland. At 10 o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a westerly breeze and smooth sea. It...
A Royal Reception
A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
Category: Meetings
Cove and Kilcreggan Branch Flower Show
Finishing touches being made to the exhibits at Cove and Kilcreggan branch flower show. It is an annual event and is growing in popularity and size all the time. Last year's show, which was opened by the Reverend C. K. O. Spence,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs