LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales Day for the Life-Boats
H.R.H. THE PRINCE or WALES, K.G., as President of the Institution, has been pleased to say that, in celebration of the King's Silver Jubilee, all life- boat days this year shall be known as "Prince of Wales Day." It will be...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas James Jeune, of Beaumaris, Anglesey.
He was appointed coxswain at the beginning of 1939; was away on war service from September, 1939, until June, 1945; and then took up...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...
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The Remains of Margate Pier After the Storm of 1977 — the Badly Damaged Lifeboat Station Stands Isolated Between It and the Shore. (Inset) the New Station, Built Near the Landward E
The remains of Margate pier after the storm of 1977 — the badly damaged lifeboat station stands isolated between it and the shore. (Inset) The new station, built near the landward end of the old pier.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation in 1958. One was the station at Ballycotton in County Cork ; the other was Hastings in Sussex.
The ceremony at Hastings took place on the 27th of July,...
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New Ways of Raising Money
A NEW type of collecting box has been designed by Group-Captain John Potter of Crowborough. It takes coins of all sizes, and every time a coin is dropped into the box a model life- boat is launched. A number of these boxes were displayed at...
Category: Donations
At the Limits
Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...
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The Henrietta
HARWICH.—At 6 P.M. on the 25th April, it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the Cork Sand. The Life-boat Springwell was immediately launched, and arrived at the Sand at about 8 P.M. The stranded vessel proved to be the Henrietta, of...
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
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Official Opening of the New Calshot Lifeboat Station
The crew of Calshot lifeboat are celebrating following the official opening of their much longed for lifeboat station on the edge of the Solent.. - View image in PDF
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