LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letter from a Norwegian Girl
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Norwegian girl, who read an article about the Life-boat Service in the March number of English Illustrated, has written to say she wants to know more about the Service and hopes she will find a girl pen-friend interested...
Category: Correspondence
Mr. P. H. Thorp.
A link with the Aldeburgh life-boat disaster of 7th December, 1899, has been broken by the death of Mr. P. H. Thorp. He was the last surviving member of the crew associated with the Aldeburgh life-boat of 1899..
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Coxswain Thomas H. Bloom,
Ex-Coxswain Thomas H. Bloom, who served as an officer of the Walton and Frinton life-boat for 31 years, is dead. He won a silver and two bronze medals in the course of his life-boat career..
Category: Obituaries
Tapestry
A scenic tapestry by members of the Flamborough Women's Institute depicting the work of the local life-boat has been entered in the final of a nation-wide competition based on Conservation Year. Members worked on the tapestry for six...
Category: Articles
Emmett Marine Ltd
JABSCO ... the first name in marine pumps JACK CUNNINGHAM used JABSCO pumps for his award winning Fairey Huntsman FORDSPEED —all supplied by Emmett (Marine and Industrial) Limited.
Last year Jack Cunningham completed 8,000...
Category: Advertisement
Maria F., of Hamburg
Bridlington, Yorkshire - On 4th-5th February, 1968, the life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched to the assistance of the motor vessel Maria F of Hamburg. A full account of this service will appear in the September issue of THE...
Mr J P W Mallalieu MP Junior Minister Board of Trade Visited the Walton Life-Boat Station and the Harwich Life-Boat on 22Nd February 1968
Mr. J. P. W. Mallalieu, M.P., Junior Minister, Board of Trade, visited the Walton life-boat station and the Harwich life-boat on 22nd February, 1968. Here he is talking to Coxswain-Mechanic P. Burwood of the 44-foot steel life-boat Margaret... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Filey IRB Crew—An Irb Station Was Established There In 1966—Consists of a Bank Manager a Cafe Proprietor and a Joiner When This Photograph As Taken the Irb An
The Filey IRB crew—an IRB station was established there in 1966—consists of a bank manager, a cafe proprietor and a joiner. When this photograph as taken the IRB and the local life-boat had returned from the successful rescue of two youths... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Barge
On the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the Dunmore East life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 5, Cox- swain Patrick Power was awarded a second clasp to his bronze...
Espanola
LATER ACCOUNT Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On i8th August, 1964, the life-boat W. M. Tihon put out to the yacht Espanola and rescued her crew of five. A full account of this service will appear in the March number Of THE LIFE-BOAT..