LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Well Dressing Is An Old Custom In Derbyshire and Here Is a Magnificent Example of the Art Created at Holymoorside Last August Usually Well Dressings Have a Religious Theme But Last Year Chest
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
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Centenary of the Dutch Life-Boat Service
As was indicated in the important article contributed by my friend, Mr. de Booy, in the February, 1921, issue of this journal, the beneficent influence of Sir William Hillary's noble initiative in the foundation of the ROYAL NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Miss Alice Johnston
Miss Alice Johnston, who lives in Sussex, it can now be disclosed, gave £25,000 towards the cost of the 52-foot prototype Arun class life-boat which was depicted on page 109 of the July Journal. On 7th July Miss Johnston, who is 83, was...
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (182)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST.
IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and the Newquay motor life-boat put out. While she was out information was received that another British aeroplane was...
The Problem of Designing Life-Boats. Self-Righting Life-Boats Or Life-Boats Which Cannot Self-Right
By Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R.
Chief Inspector of Life-boats WHENEVER a life-boat of the type which cannot right herself is capsized the same questions are asked. "Why cannot all life-boats right...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Charles Ward, of Aldeburgh
Coxswain Charles Edward Ward, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, who died at the beginning of July in his eighty-sixth year, had served as an officer of the Aldeburgh life-boat for thirty-three years. He was second coxswain from 1876 until 1882, and...
Category: Obituaries
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Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...
Dignity at West Mersea
Dignity at West Mersea The official opening and dedication of West Mersea's new lifeboat house took place at the same time as the naming ceremony.
Dignity is named after Dignity Caring Funeral Services, whose employees... - View image in PDF
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Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli and Hrh the Duchess of Kent Arriving at St.Paul's Cathedral on March 4 1974 to Attend the Service of Thanksgiving An
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, and HRH The Duchess of Kent arriving at St Paul's Cathedral on March 4, 1974, to attend the service of thanksgiving and dedication on the occasion of the ISOth anniversary of the Royal... - View image in PDF
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