LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Some Ways of Raising Money
More than £12,000 was raised by Bristol ladies' guild at its summer ball, held last July at the home of Mr and Mrs Cullum McAlpine, near Bath. On arrival, every lady was presented with a red rose, and when the 350 guests sat down to...
Category: Articles
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
Three Fishing Boats
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA St. Abbs, Berwickshire. On the morning of the 26th August, 1962, a gale warning was issued and the southerly breeze did in fact increase in force.
Three local fishing boats were at sea in...
The Organiser of the City of Edinburgh Lifeboat Appeal
People from all walks of life like to help the RNLI and this fact was certainly demonstrated recently. The organiser of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal were delighted to receive a cheque for £35 from the residents of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat House: Change of Address
OWING to the fact that the present Head- quarters at Life-boat House, Charing Cross Road, have for some years been too small for the staff required to deal with the constant expansion of the Institution's activities, the Committee of...
Category: Articles
Errata
In the list of those who received silver badges, which appeared in the June 1963 number of the Life-boat on pages 485 and 486, the name of Mrs.
C. E. Thompson of Bradford appeared wrongly as Miss G. E....
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the...
Category: Articles
Lerwick's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Soldian With Her Crew and Crew Reserves She Was Named By Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution on September 12 19
Lerwick's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Soldian with her crew and crew reserves. She was named by HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution on September 12, 1978.
Included in the report of the ceremony published in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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