LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Voices
VOICes ‘The lifeboat volunteers make me proud to be British.’ Murray Walker The voice of Formula One tells Rory Stamp of his admiration for the RNLI’s crews ‘I’ve always had immeasurable respect for them,’ says Murray Walker as he watches...
Category: Articles
The Converted Yacht Mary Ann
St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man fishing at Plemont had heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in difficulty close to...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Redcar branch ladies guild's income for 1976 exceeded £4,000, all raised the hard way. None of the members has a car, so that large suitcases have to be heaved on and off buses in support of their various fund-raising efforts. In...
Category: Donations
Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth Staff Inspector (Operational Developments Trials and Sea Training)
Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth, staff inspector (operational developments, trials and sea training).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Navy's Help In 1941.
In 1941 the Navy contributed £3408 to the Life-boat Service. That is £1311 than in 1940, and seven times as much as in the last year of peace..
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 282 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 286 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Eight Lloyds Bank Staff from Petersfield Branch Their Friends and Customers Together With An East Hampshire Post
Eight Lloyds Bank staff from Petersfield branch, their friends and customers together with an East Hampshire Post reporter made a sponsored parachute jump last April.
The adventurous group, who raised £750 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Francis's Corrugated Iron Boats
As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...
Category: Articles
An Outboard Gemini Craft
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...