LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arthur Capewell, Q.C.
MR. ARTHUR CAPEWELL, Q.C., a member of the Committee of Management, died on the 18th of October, 1957, at the age of 54. He was Deputy Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions and held the posts of Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees...
Category: Obituaries
Win a Car
MR. DONALD STEWARD, of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, Norfolk, is organizing a national competition in aid of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, based on the attendance at the 1967 Motor Show. The first prize will be a new motor...
Category: Articles
Summary of Accounts for 1977
Summary of Accounts for 1977 Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters.
£ millions 6.5 How expenditure was apportioned Ten years at a glance 0.5 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Areas of...
Category: Accounts
Will & Fanny Kirby
The Oakley Mk1s were the first self-righting lifeboat to be built after the war, using a system of water ballast transfer. Will and Fanny Kirby 's coxswain was awarded a Bronze Medal in 1973.
Type Oakley Mk1 Twin-Screw... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Dinghy in distress The volunteers at Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station in Somerset were out on exercise on 19 February 2006 when a call came to assist dinghy sailor Tanya Tucker. The boom clip to her mast had broken, causing repeated capsizing...
A Vessel (12)
MARCH 6TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
Information had been received that a vessel was in distress off Whitby and that that life-boat was unable to put out owing to the heavy seas. The Runswick life-boat was launched but could...
A Small Tank Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—23rd November, 1938. A small tank steamer, with her engine broken down, had dragged her anchor near the West Sunk Sands, but she did not need help.
—Rewards, £24 19s..
A Tug
SEPTEMBER 9TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
The life-boat had been called out to a tug towing concrete defences, with a trawler in attendance, but her services were not needed. - Rewards, £15 18s..
A Vessel (9)
MARCH 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A vessel attached to the balloon barrage service had been reported to be in difficulties, but did not need help. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 6S. 9d..
Indian Irb Crewman
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
Category: Branches