LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suited and booted
Many of London’s City workers unwind after a hard day with a trip to the gym or a drink in a bar. But sometimes when he leaves his office in Fenchurch Street David Taylor walks to a floating pier on the River Thames, pulls on a drysuit, and...
Category: Articles
Alderman Lady Reed, of Exeter
ALDERMAN LADY (EMILIE WARD) REED, who died in February, 1947, was for nearly forty years actively associated with the Exeter branch, and she found time, in the midst of many other public duties, to give it always her personal and...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat and Dinghy
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 7th of September 1957, the police reported that a rowing boat with two girls and two young men on board was in diffi- culties in Colwyn Bay. The life-boat Tillie Morrison,...
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
Category: Songs
The Fundraisers
Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...
Category: Meetings
1975: Silver Medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen Meet After Nearly 20 Years
. . . 7975: silver medallists Coxswain Ben Tart of Dungeness (I.) and Coxswain Albert Bird of Aberdeen meet after nearly 20 years . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morning Star and Mary and Dan
NORTH SUNDERLAND. — The fishingcobles Morning Star and Mary and Dan, of North Snnderland, were overtaken by a heavy sea while fishing on the 8th January, and, as they were in danger, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1.15 P.M., and...
The Finnish Lifeboat Service
SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
Category: Articles
Glad Tidings and Radiant Morn
Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that thefishing boat Glad Tidings had left Druridge Bay for Amble, but that conditions on the Amble harbour bar were dangerous. At 2.17...