LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. E. Selby Davidson
MR. E. SELBY DAVIDSON, who died on the 8th August, 1963, was honorary secretary of the Tynemouth life-boat station for 24 years. He was appointed in September, 1939, and from May, 1962, served as joint honor- ary secretary with Captain D....
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 9th June, 1910.
Colonel Sir Fitzroy CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read a letter from His Majesty's Principal Secretary oi State for Home Affairs conveying His Majesty's thanks...
Category: Committee
September
Launches 29. Lives rescued 42.
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel...
Category: Services
Girvan - Scotland Division
Flanked by gardens and pathways, a sheltered and colourful harbour at the mouth of the winding water of Girvan is the base of a fishing fleet. The harbour is also home to Girvan sailing club and boats can be hired by sea... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated fry Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IH 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BX VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Cardiff ladies' guild increased their income in 1976 by about 30 per cent.
Of the £5,010 they raised for the lifeboat service last year £1,460 was by way of their annual collection and £1,000 was the...
Category: Donations
Services by Shore-Boats (10)
BURRAFIRTH, LERWICK, SHETLANDS. At 1.52 P.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the coastguard asked the Lighthouse Shore Station at Burrafirth to send its boat to pick up the crew of the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, which had been sunk by enemy...
Category: Services
Above: Dave Eccles, Gives Advice
This page, above: Dave Eccles, gives advice on how to tifl someone safely aboard the raft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This Fight Till You Drop Was the Idea of Publican Jim Kelleway of the Lord Nelson Poole Quay
This fight till you drop was the idea of publican Jim Kelleway of the Lord Nelson, Poole Quay. Champion male jouster was Peter Taylor and top maiden Emma Southwood, appropriately enough a member of Poole and Bournemouth branch of the British... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs