LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead Branch Receives the Congratulations of Her Fellow Supporters Her 100Th Birthday
Below: Mrs Maud Russ of Portishead branch receives the congratulations of her fellow supporters on her 100th birthday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE ICING ON THE CAKE
In October, the Largs Lifeboat Fundraising Branch welcomed outgoing RNLI Chair, Charles Hunter-Pease, to speak at their annual lunch where he was presented with a special cake decorated with a model of the Largs lifeboat to mark his...
Category: Articles
The Fighting Services Ever Mindful of the Work of the Rnli Assisted at Lifeboat Flag Days During Both Wars Here Members of the Waaf at Raf North Coates Near Gri
The fighting services, ever mindful of the work of the RNLI, assisted at lifeboat flag days during both wars. Here members of the WAAF at RAF North Coates, near Grimsby, are shown in the summer of 1942.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eleanor, of Quebec
On the night of the 8th December, when blowing heavily at W.N.W., the Life-boat made two trips to the barque Eleanor, of Quebec, then ashore on the Cardiff Sands.
The first time the boat started from the shore at 10 P.M.,...
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
A Night on the Goodwins
[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...
Category: Articles
Updating Information on the Stateboard Movements of Head Office Officials Divisional Inspectors and Other Coast Staff Are Kept Readily Available on Pegboard (R)
Updating information on the stateboard. Movements of head office officials, divisional inspectors and other coast staff are kept readily available on pegboard (r.).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Calcutta of London
The Cadgwith life-boat was also launched early on the morning of the 9th February, in a very heavy gale, and proceeded under canvas to the assistance of a large ship which was observed with bowsprit and foremast gone, and in a disabled state...
News from the Branches
Eastbourne.
AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...
Category: Branches
(Above) They Were Queuing Up to Give to the Rnli In Llford on London Lifeboat Day
(Above) They were queuing up to give to the RNLI in llford on London lifeboat day, when a total of £180,590 was raised in Greater London and the City.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs