LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Following the Ceremony - Brian Sevan Takes Hrh the Duke of Ken! Aboard the New Lifeboat.
Following the ceremony - Brian Sevan takes HRH The Duke of Ken! aboard the new lifeboat. Photo. Roger Jack. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six-Year-Old Stuart Tarvet of St.Monans
Six-year-old Stuart Tarvet of St Monans was so keen to help at Anstruther's Lifeboat Day Gala that he dressed up as a collecting box, and collected £20! The Gala attracted over 5,000 people and the firing of a maroon started the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Jersey's Grand Summer Ball on July 10 was held at Government House, Jersey, with the kind co-operation of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor General Sir Peter Whiteley and Lady Whiteley, president of the guild.
It...
Category: Donations
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.
He won the silver medal for...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr Alastair Barrow, chairman of the Reading RNLI young enthusiasts, writes that they are all about 15 years old and for the last two years have been trying to raise the £1,000 needed to buy a 15-foot ILB. In this connection a sponsored...
Category: Articles
'A twist of fate'
It’s Saturday 14 June, the day before Father’s Day. A gentle swell is building off Redcar, Cleveland. Two boats, each carrying a father and son, are out on fishing trips. The crew of one vessel will soon owe the other their...
Category: Articles
On the Needles
The Greek steamer Varcassi, wrecked on January 5th, 1947. The Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat rescued her crew of thirty-five. (See page 14.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the Naming Ceremony Began a Souvenir Programme Was Presented to the Duke of Kent By Catherine Piggot (Right) Daughter of Cre
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the naming ceremony began a souvenir programme was presented to the Duke of Kent by Catherine Piggot (right), daughter of Crew Member Alastair Piggot. After the ceremony Coxswain John Jack and his crew took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain John Donnan, of the Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down, life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow.
Appointed coxswain in April, 1966, he had previously been second coxswain from April, 1961, to March, 1966. In 1965 the old Cloughey...
Category: Articles