LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
An art for all seasons
What home is complete without a seascape on the wall?
The sea provides a backdrop to all our lives – even in our homes, for we seem to have an indefatigable appetite for seascapes. Romance, beauty, danger and power are all...
Category: Articles
From Left to Right Crispin Williamson, Martin Ebdell, Joseph Purches and Richard Pearce With Hrh the Duke of Kent
From left to right Crispin Williamson, Martin Ebdell, Joseph Purches and Richard Pearce with HRH The Duke of Kent after the presentation of their awards.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sunny Seas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.8. on the evening of the 27th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Sunny Seas needed help one mile west of Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 8.16. The sea...
News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1935
1st August to 31st October, 1935.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive, with address by the assistant district organizing secretary.
HAYES.—Annual meeting on 31st October. Speaker :...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches
Walton-on-the-Naze.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 29th December, the chair being taken by Mr. E. Standley, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. J. W. Eagle, the Chair- man. The account for the year ending the 30th...
Category: Branches
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories Holy Island Lifeboats by Brian Chandler published by the author at £3.50 For such a small island, only a few hundred yards off the coast of Northumberland, Holy Island has a packed and fascinating history -...
Category: Articles
Rnli news
AGM 1988 The RNLI's annual meetings for 1988 will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at the South Bank, London. The governors' annual general meeting takes place in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the annual presentation of...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence