LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Ann
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore Spent An Hour With the Rnli When Visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy Last Autumn (Above Right—Royal Marine Phot
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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It Was a Summer of Fairs Tombola Break for (I to R) Mr and Mrs W J Shufflebottom Who Opened Their Home and Garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-On-Trent Ladies' Guild F
was a summer of fairs . . . tombola break for (I. to r.) Mr and Mrs W. J. Shufflebottom, who opened their home and garden at Hanchurch for Stoke-on-Trent ladies' guild fair, with Miss Winifred Barratt, who opened festivities, and Mrs W... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Popularity Has Grown Steadily for the Petworth Clay Pigeon Shoot and In the Five Years the Competition Has Been Held More Than £1500 Has Been Amassed for the Rnli Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Co
Popularity has grown steadily for the Petworth clay pigeon shoot and in the five years the competition has been held more than £1,500 has been amassed for the RNLI. Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alderney - a Lifeboat Station from Scratch By Edward Wake-Walker
It is not often that a new lifeboat station is opened. This is the story of how the Channel island of Alderney came to provide what has rapidly proved an invaluable addition to the RNLI's operational cover.WHEN YOU HEAR him calmly...
Category: Articles
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, Has Been 'Bottling' Life-Boats for Quite a Time
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, has been 'bottling' life-boats for quite a time. The three models shown here cover the period 1890 to the introduction of the 70-foot steel life-boat. Mr. Hawkes writes: 'Putting boats... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Mayor of Lambeth Councillor Hugh Chambers Presents a Cheque for £2235 to Michael Ashley
(Below) Mayor of Lambeth, Councillor Hugh Chambers, presents a cheque for £2,235 to Michael Ashley, RO (South London), while the Mayoress looks on. This impressive sum was raised by junior school children throughout the Borough of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hero of the Seas
IN spite of the diatribes of pacificists against war as a relic of barbarism and the embodiment of all evil, the present stupendous struggle has once again proved that, notwithstanding the horrors, t h e misery and the grief which war brings...
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