LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COVER PICTURE by Cumbrian Newspapers HRH The Duchess of Kent aboard Workington's Tyne class lifeboat during her visit to Cumbria. During the Duchess's visit she named Silloth's new Atlantic 75 and opened two new... - View image in PDF

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JANUARY Launches 35 Lives rescued 39 JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.

Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was...

• CI should like to tell about something that has given me an enormous amount of satisfaction; I think it was one of the proudest moments in my life when they made me the coxswain —and certainly the proudest moment in my dad's life. One...

ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...

MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.

In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal...

It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...