LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fairy Marine Group
Waveney 13 4m Self-righting Lifeboat sr craft for the total coastguard concept Tracker 19 6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton, Telephone: Hamble 2661 Telex: 47546.
Category: Advertisement
Five Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
Category: Articles
Long John Silver at Ramsgate
He is with the Mayor and Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie on Life-boat Day, and has just been rescued by the life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Smithy at Gretna Green
In front of the group is one of the life-boat boxes which collected £227 in three months (See page 154). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
D Class Named at Lytham
Lytham lifeboat, John Kennedy, is launched down Lytham Jetty in front of the large crowd of guests and onlookers. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A 'Day' at the Races...
Garford branch held a Race Night on 20 March which also included supper, dancing and a raffle.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1975 January and February 1976
Aberystwyth, Dyfed February 14.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 3 and February 15.
Conwy, Gwynedd February 7.
Eastney, Hampshire December 6, 30, January 7,25 and February 27.
Category: Services
A PADDLE TOO FAR
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
Category: Articles
S.S. Turkia
Swanage, Dorset.—At 8.18 A.M. Oil the 20th October, 1939, the Swanage coastguard reported that the Greek steamer s.s. Turkia had grounded one mile and a half N.W. by W. of St.
Albans Head, but was not flying distress...
Coronation Supplement. The Royal Family and the Life-Boat Service
WHEN the Life-boat Service was founded, at a meeting in the City of London, in 1824, King George IV became its Patron, and five of the royal dukes its vice-patrons—York, Clarence, Sussex, Cambridge and Gloucester.
So the...
Category: Articles