LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1936
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
Category: Branches
The Humber Lightship
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.8 oil the morning of the 1st of March, 1953, the Spurn coastguard telephoned that the master of the Humber lightship had requested the help of the life-boat to land a sick man. The life-boat City of Bradford II was...
The Annual Meeting
The annual meeting was held in London on October 18th, and the seven life-boatmen who have won medals for gallantry since the end of the war were present. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided and read a message from...
Category: Articles
Raising the Dough
Six year old Alexandra Avern presented a coffee jar containing £6.50 to Leamington Spa branch treasurer Tony Avern (the second name is not a coincidence, Tony is her uncle!). Alexandra is a keen lifeboat supporter and member of Storm... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Record of 1925
Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
Category: Annual Reports
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Harry Burgess, who has been coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat since 1947. He served as second cox- swain for nearly a year, and as bowman from 1931 to 1936"and 1937 to 1946..
Category: Articles
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.55 on the night of the 17th of July, 1950, the coast- guard received a message from the .Superintendent, Trinity House, Cowes, that the master of the Owers light- vessel was ill with suspected appendi- citis. At 11.25...
Narwhal and the lolanthe
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At six in the evening of the 16th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that two sailing yachts were becalmed in fog,jone to the north of the pier and the other to the south, and that they were a danger...
The Greek Freighter Athina B.
Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...
It's Late It's Dark and It's Raining But the Oakley Is Ashore and the Princess Royal Is on Her Carriage for the First Time So All We Have to Do Now Is Launch Her Again A
It's late, it's dark and it's raining, but the Oakley is ashore and The Princess Royal is on her carriage for the first time. So all we have to do now is launch her again and then retrieve her before we go home to bed…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs