LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Bank of Scotland
RNLI Andy Huggelt: 2nd coxswain ana deputy mechanic. Eastbourne lifeboat.
He'll face 30ft waves, force 9 gales and sub-zero temperatures.
All you face is an application form.
Every...
Category: Advertisement
Crossword Results
The prize winners of the July life-boat crossword, which concludes the series, were: 1st, Mrs. L. S. Lamb, Broadway, Worcester, 2nd, W. P. Dobson, Milnthorpe, Westmorland, and 3rd, Mrs. B. R. Ostler, Loughton, Essex.
The...
Category: Articles
John Lee
ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS £45 post paid LIFEBOAT PAINTINGS (ALL TYPES) IN ROUGH SEA, ON CANVAS, SIZE 30" x 24" Satisfaction or money returned Contribution to Lifeboat from each painting John Lee 9 The Esplanade, Weymouth,...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 11.—Mr. James Hartley Burton, Honorary Secretary of the Beaumaris Life-Boat Station
ME. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been Honorary Secretary of a Life-boat Station, first at Penmon in Anglesey —the Station was closed in 1915—and then at Beaumaris, for over 20 years.
He has brought to the work a life-long...
Category: Articles
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
Shoreline
Name change response In the Spring issue we posed the question, 'What's in a name?' and invited members to think up alternative names for Shoreline.
The response was most encouraging, with the editor's...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
Category: Articles
Hyannis to Rockland from Page 233
Hyannis to Rockland from page 233 were asked regarding the operation of a voluntary lifeboat service outside Government control. The predominantly shore based role of HM Coastguard was a fact which many of the audience found hard to...
Category: Articles
Kyle Prince
Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the night of the 8th October, 1938,the City of Bradford I, doing temporary duty at Holyhead, went out in a gale to the steamer Kyle Prince, of Liverpool, and rescued her crew of nine.—Rewards, The thanks of the...