LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Taylor of Padstow
Mary Taylor of Padstow is a prolific fund raiser. During the financial year ending September 1985 she raised a magnificent £1,250—all the more remarkable when you find out that she makes all the items she sells herself. Throughout the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of Warwick Guild
Members of Warwick guild were well wrapped up during a recent Victorian evening held in the town. Selling 20th century RNLI gifts in 19th century garb are (I to r) Ann Fowkes, Peggy Stuart and Pam Neeves, obviously enjoying themselves. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Stewart
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (4)
JANUARY 26TH.. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, E S S E X . A s t e a m e r h a d b e e n r e p o r t e d ashore, but before the life-boat could reach her a signal was received that the steamer had refloated. When the life-boat returned she was one...
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen (1)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
Groombridge Award
The Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the most meritorious rescue by an inshore lifeboat crew in 2009 has been given to Whitstable Helm Jonathan Carter and Crew Members Tony Martin and Henry Thomson. The crew saved the life of a man...
Category: Articles
Twenty Medals In Five Months.
In the five winter months the Institution has awarded 20 medals for gallantry to English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish life-boatmen. The stations which have won them are Maryport, Southend-on-Sea, Tynemouth, and Walton and Frinton in England;...
Category: Articles
Two M.B.E's.
In the New Year's Honours Mr. W. W. Harris was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the New Brighton life-boat station, and Mrs. E. M. Astley Roberts, president of the Eastbourne...
Category: Articles
The Following Are Extracts from the General Rules of Management
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE GENERAL RULES OF MANAGEMENT :— " Each Life-boat to have a Coxswain Superintendent, with a fixed Annual Salary of £8.
" The Life-boat to be regularly taken afloat for...
Category: Accounts
Aircraft (2)
JULY 13TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. Aircraft had been reported down but nothing could be found. The life-boat was short of her regular crew, but the honorary secretary, Captain A. G. Cole, the district inspector, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B...