LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Lifeboat Stations of the Isle of Man By Joan Davies
VERY CLOSE TO THE SEA are people of the Isle of Man. Set in the Irish Sea almost equidistant between England and Ireland, with Scotland to the north and Wales to the south, not only is the island itself dependent on sea trade but is lies...
Category: Articles
Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan Accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock
Music to the RNLI's ears! Bournemouth Gilbert and Sullivan accompanist Mrs Jean Hancock tries to find the tune on a £500 cheque presented by the society's chairman Mr Gilbert Clayton to Mr Doug Reeves, honorary secretary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles
Hitena, of St Johns
On the 28th De- cember the brigantine Hitena, of St. Johns, Newfoundland, was observed off Worthing with signals of distress in her rigging. A gale was blowing from the S.W., and there was a heavy sea on. The Jane life-boat was soon manned...
Patricia Joan
Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...
Marjory Joan
Seaham, Co. Durham. At seven o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1960, some local fishermen toldthe coxswain that the fishing coble Marjory Joan of Sunderland was over- due. At 7.10 the life-boat George Elmy was launched, an hour...
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies
A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
Category: Articles