LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are Intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is ; stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- I strrirnoif, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew,...
Category: Committee
Coxswain Thomas Rees, of Angle
Coxswain Thomas Rees, who died at the age of seventy-eight, was coxswain of the Angle life-boat for fifteen years, from 1906 until 1920, when he retired on account of old age. His most notable service was performed as a member of the crew in...
Category: Obituaries
Hidden Among a Band of Ace Fund Raisers Are Shoreham Lifeboat's Motor Mechanic Jack Silverson and Ian Wallington
Hidden among a band of ace fund raisers are Shoreham lifeboat's motor mechanic. Jack Silverson, and Ian Wallington, RO(SE). The children, class 1 (aged 10 and II) of Shoreham Beach First School, have just handed over a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duke of Kent Addresses the Gathering Before Presenting the Awards
HRH The Duke of Kent addresses the gathering before presenting the awards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Collection of Mayors
A report in the spring 1985 issue of the journal about ex-mayors and mayoresses partaking in collecting on lifeboat day in St Albans some 50 years ago gave rise to the committee of this branch deciding to revive the custom. Letters were sent... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launch from the Beach of Charles Fred Grantham
Launch from the beach of Charles Fred Grantham, Skegness's present 37ft Oakley lifeboat, by carriage and tractor.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenary of the Institution, 1924. Appeal to Honorary Secretaries
Tim Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
Hrh the Duchess of Kent Takes a Short Trip Around the Harbour Following the Ceremony to Name the New Mersey Class Lifeboat Kingdom of Fife.
HRH The Duchess of Kent takes a short trip around the harbour following the ceremony to name the new Mersey class lifeboat Kingdom of Fife. - View image in PDF
Photo William Flett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
Category: Services
The S.S. Epidauro
During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.
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