LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To Readers of the Life-Boat
THE editor of The Life-boat will always be glad to receive from its readers anything which they think it would be of interest to publish concerning the present or the past of the life-boat service..
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service During the General Strike
THE General Strike started at midnight on Monday, 3rd May, and all the regular transport by rail and road ceased at once. On Wednesday, 12th May, shortly after midday, the strike was called off, but it was not until the Saturday that normal...
Category: Articles
(11)—Second Coxswain Dennis Finch. Became Second Coxswain When Frank Bloom Took Over As Coxswain In 1964. Worked As a Boat Builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, Until Recently. Now Tak
(11)—Second coxswain Dennis Finch.
Became second coxswain when Frank Bloom took over as coxswain in 1964.
Worked as a boat builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, until recently. Now takes out fishing parties.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Three Anglers Are Brought Ashore By Penarth's D Class Inflatable
The three anglers are brought ashore by Penarth's D class inflatable. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesy South Wales Echo). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dowsing Lightvessel
PATIENT ON LIGHTVESSEL At 10.37 a-m- on 2^th August, 1964, a superintendent of Trinity House told the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board Dowsing lightvessel needed urgent medical attention and requested the use of the life-boat...
News from the Branches
Gateshead.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 1st June, the chair being taken by the Mayor (Alderman W. Clough). The report for the year ending the 30th September, 1920, showed that the Branch had raised a sum of nearly...
Category: Branches
Talking With John Tyrrell FRINA
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
Category: Articles
Ipswich (The Town Of) Life-Boat Fund
! E. GRIMWADE, Esq., Mayor, K.OBEHT RANSOMS, Esq.
GECKO R JossEfcrs, Esq Honorary Secretary—Mr- W. BATEMAN Bvso.
Strsdbroke, Right Hon. (Lord Lieut, of the County) .
Rendlesham,Right...
Category: Donations
A Picture Taken from the Bow of 70,001 When She Went to the Assistance of the Danish Ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967
A picture taken from the bow of 70,001 when she went to the assistance of the Danish ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs