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Walter Cox

Date: Spring 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 488

No 40, Nelson Road, Wimbledon, has become a mecca for model railway enthusiasts from all over England when Walter Cox opens his garden to the public for one day each summer to show off his OO gauge model railway in aid of the RNLI. The Mayor... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Days In 1944

Date: June 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 20

In the fifth year of the war life-boat flag days raised £131,829. That is £657 more than in 1943 and nearly three times as much as in 1939, the last year of peace. lu each of the five years of war the figure has been a record. The...

Category: Articles

The Breadth of the Life-Boat Appeal

Date: May 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 284

By EDGAR H. JOHNSON, F.C.I.S., District Organizing Secretary for the North of England.I HAVE recently addressed on behalf of tie Life-boat Service three very different audiences—the business men of Manchester at a luncheon of the Rotary Club...

Category: Articles

The Fundraisers

Date: Spring 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 544

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

Search and Rescue at Sea

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

ALONG the top of the first page of the official instructions to H.M. Coast- guard the following words are written : " The swift emergencies of the sea call for prompt response ".

It is just that which has led to...

Category: Articles

A Rescue In a Snow-Storm

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...

Category: Services

Lifeboats at Llandudno and Conwy By Heather Deane

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

LLANDUDNO AND CONWY are neighbouring lifeboat stations on the north western tip of Wales, separated by just a few miles of coast but by more than 100 years in lifeboat history.

In 1850 Llandudno was a small village...

Category: Articles

Visitor's guide

Date: Winter 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 563

An invitation to me visit id discover the world of lifeboats..Few visitors to the seaside would think of a lifeboat station as a place to visit. But, as the operation and housing of a lifeboat is an essential seafront activity, many...

Category: Articles

Rewards to Life-Boats' Crews

Date: January 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 59

WITH " revolving years" the seasons of storm again and again occur, and each season brings more and more prominently into view the " Life-boat and its Work," whilst each seems to demand for that work a greater and greater...

Category: Articles

The Value of a Life

Date: February 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 297

The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.

No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...

Category: Articles