LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...
Category: Meetings
A Speed Boat
New recruits in at the deep end It was Gary Roberts' first ever lifeboat service and Dwynwen Parry was only nine months into her probationary period, but under the wing of Helmsman David Jones, they helped to save a family of four from...
Presentation of a New I.R.B. to Bridlington, Yorkshire, By the Hucknall, Nottingham, Round Table. Pictured (Left to Right) Are Mrs. Thelma Cass, Chairman of Bridlington Ladies' Life-Boat Guild, Mr. M
Presentation of a new I.R.B. to Bridlington, Yorkshire, by the Hucknall, Nottingham, Round Table. Pictured (left to right) are Mrs. Thelma Cass, chairman of Bridlington ladies' life-boat guild, Mr. Malcolm Grainger, chairman of Hucknall... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Before the University Boat Race took place on the Thames on 1st April, 1972, Commander P. Thornycroft, V.R.D., R.N.R., M.R.I.N.A., of T.T. Boat Designers Ltd, Bembridge, I.o.W., wrote: 'We have been asked by the B.B.C. if a boat can be...
Category: Articles
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
A Boat
On the 16th May a sailor-boy, while endeavouring to reach his vessel, in Kedwharf Bay, in a boat from the shore, was driven out to sea by the strong ebb and high wind. The Moelfre life-boat was launched as soon as possible, and, after a long...
Life-Boat Medallists, 1915-1916
IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...
Category: Medals
Netta Croan
Fire at sea A TRAWLER on fire, not under control, but under way about four miles north east of Aberdeen: that was the message received from HM Coastguard at 2055 on Saturday, April 13, by the honorary secretary, Aberdeen. The crew were...
The Last Arun Class Lifeboat to Be Built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl
The last Arun class lifeboat to be built - 52-46 Duke of Atholl - was alongside Festival Pier during the meetings and those attending were able to view her before she departed to escort the Little Ships.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fleet Air Arm Barracuda Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.
Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north...