LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Woolly Jumpers
No one is too sure why 13 sheep ended up on the cliffs just outside Fowey on 15 March this year, but a service to stand-by while a Coastguard cliff rescue team tried to extricate them ended up with some unusual 'survivors' in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Meryl Taaffe,
Mrs Meryl Taaffe, Vice President and Treasurer of Barmouth ladies lifeboat guild. She joined the branch in 1972 and had a stint as Secretary until 1992 when she became Vice President and Treasurer. She was awarded the Silver badge in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Slipway Launch In Lights...
Every year hundreds of people flock to see the laser and light shows during the Walsall Illuminations. In the 1999 event, one of the many features was the above display depicting a 'splashy' slipway lifeboat launch from a boathouse... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Hats off for the medallists! Pictured on hoard Galway Ba lifeboat Roy and Barbara Harding before this year's annual presentation of awards are those who received medals from HRH the Duchess of Kent. Left to right: John Pavill, Stephen... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hartlepool April 26 1987:
Hartlepool, April 26, 1987: Crew member Tom Price splashes champagne over Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Burton Brewer, following her naming ceremony.
The boat was provided from an appeal in Burton-on-Trent,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This Raggedy Looking Band of Players
This raggedy looking band of players are the Syzewell Gap Mummers who perform their play in pubs in the Aldeburgh area each year over Christmas to raise money for the lifeboat service. In 1986 they collected £90 in just two nights from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Too Many Cooks! Portpatrick
Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Doris Willdig
DECEMBER 1988: Mrs Doris Willdig, president of Coventry Ladies' Guild from 1972 to 1988. She was chairman of the guild from 1963 to 1972 and was awarded a silver badge in 1973 and a gold badge in 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Georgina Keen,
June 1996 Mrs Georgina Keen, a vicepresident of the committee of management. Mrs Keen was elected to the committee of management in 1975 and was appointed a vicepresident in 1987. Mrs Keen was a member of the fundraising committee from 1971...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Joan Beynon,
Mrs Joan Beynon, Porthcawl ladies guild founder member, former secretary, treasurer and souvenir secretary. Mrs Beynon remained an active member of Porthcawl fundraising branch, becoming president in 1997. She was awarded the gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries