LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Monty Hand,
Monty Hand, member of Bognor Regis branch for over 33 years. Monty carried out various duties within the branch committee, including flag week and flag day organiser, sponsored walk co-ordinator and souvenir secretary. He received the silver...
Category: Obituaries
Looking fore and aft
What’s it like to take a lifeboat through stormy seas while saving supporters from the muddy waters of legalese? Solicitor and former Coxswain John Stewart explains
‘I’m adjusting well but want to get used to being away...
Category: Articles
Visitors from America; Mr and Mrs Charles S Morgan from Massachusetts Are Welcomed to Barmouth By Coxswain George Jeffs With Them (I- to R) Are Motor Mechanic Dewi Davies Mr I M Jo
Visitors from America; Mr and Mrs Charles S. Morgan from Massachusetts are welcomed to Barmouth by Coxswain George Jeffs.
With them (I- to r.) are Motor Mechanic Dewi Davies, Mr I. M. Jones, station honorary secretary, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Mike Dymond checks the flares and first aid kit aboard Samaki II
Above: Mike Dymond checks the flares and first aid kit aboerd Samaki II andt. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Windermere
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 2.58 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1956, the coastguard reported that the auxiliary schooner Windermere, of Dublin, which had a crew of five, had gone aground on the Tusker Rock off Porthcawl. At...
Two Naming Ceremonies In Northumberland. Cullercoats and Boulmer
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf
THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...
Category: Articles
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collections, 1929-30
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
Category: Branches
Ina and Johnstones
Nov. 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10 A..M. a message was received from the Blyth coastguard that two local fishing boats, Ina and Johnstones, were at sea.
A S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea.<...
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