LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1900
Name of Donor or Testator. The late Mr. George Wooflndin
Amount of Gift or Legacy. 630
Date received. 1895
Object. For a George Woofndin Life-boat
How carried out....
Category: Donations
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
Amy II
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a yacht near it in urgent need of help.
Eleven minutes later the...
Rambling Rose and Cynthia, of Amble
AUGUST 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.39 at night the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that two cabin cruisers were making distress signals four miles north-north-east of Boulmer.
A slight breeze was blowing...
This Picture of a Life-Boatman and the R.N.L.I., Flag, Against a Sea Background, Is a Collage
This picture of a life-boatman and the R.N.LI, flag, against a sea background, is a collage made up of 17 different kinds of English postage stamps, and is the work of Capt. Colin Lowry, former honorary secretary and now chairman of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Lifeboat Princess: Seven-Year-Old Alison West Sold 38500 Penny Tickets to Win the Title In a Competition Organised By Seaton and Beer Branch Eight Girls Took
. . . and a lifeboat princess: seven-year-old Alison West sold 38,500 penny tickets to win the title in a competition organised by Seaton and Beer branch. Eight girls took part and achieved an amazing £568. The honorary secretary's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ain Mara
Campbehown, Argyllshire. — Shortly before eleven in the morning of the 19th of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard telephoned information from a farmer that a small yacht had run aground on the Arranman's Barrells Reef, Sound of Sanda,...
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, the Author of This Article, Pictured In His Workshop at Waldringfleld, Suffolk. No Matter What Is Afoot—Agricultural Shows, Flag Days and So On—Mr. Hawkes Can Be Relied Upon T
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, the author of this article, pictured in his workshop at Waldringfleld, Suffolk. No matter what is afoot—agricultural shows, flag days and so on—Mr. Hawkes can be relied upon to go almost anywhere and to tackle almost any... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary Jane
KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The schooner Mary Jane, of Barrow, which had left Maryport for Port William with a cargo of coal on the 22nd March, entered the river on the 23rd March at 2.30 A.M., and lay in Boss roads awaiting suitable weather to enable...
The Former Liverpool Lifeboat William and Laura
The former Liverpool lifeboat William and Laura, normally on display at Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, is the heart of the RNLI's exhibition at Liverpool Garden Festival.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs