LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A day in the life
As Sunday 12 June unfolded, lifeboat crews were called into action all around the coast, from the Firth of Forth to County Cork …
Given that lifeboats launched 24 times a day on average in 2010...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Gloucester at Ramsgate
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER named the new Ramsgate life-boat Michael and Lily Davis on the llth of June, 1954. A certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life- boat station at Ramsgate...
Category: Inaugurations
Around the Fund Raising Regions
A list of branches and guilds from the Greater London and Eastern Regions GREATER LONDON RNLI 202 Lambeth Road London SE1 7JW Tel 071-928 5742 Regional Organiser, Miss A. Wilkins London Camberwell Central Chiswick and Hammersmith City...
Category: Branches
The Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
The Most Hon. the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., who died on 7th March,1934, at the age of eighty-six, had been a vice-president of the Institution for fourteen years and was patron of the Aberdeen branch....
Category: Obituaries
The Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd.,
The Parsons Parcel-Whafs in it for you ? marine engines and reverse gears 1 A wide range of marine engines and reverse gears for pleasure or commercial craft from 64 s.h.p. up to 177 s.h.p.
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Category: Advertisement
The Admiralty Trawler Warwick Deeping
OCTOBER 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. The Admiralty trawler Warwick Deeping had sunk as a result of enemy action, but her crew of twenty-fire were rescued by two men in a motor boat and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.- Rewards,...
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1950 - 77,074 The Danger of Rubber Dinghies EVERY year life-boats are called...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1938
Mrs. JANE M. PEPPER, honorary secretary, Mansfield branch.
Mr. GEOROE PEARCEY, worker, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch.
Mrs. ROSABEL STEVENS, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Guild,...
Category: Branches
Whitby Life-Boat In the Floods
IN the next issue of The Lifeboat will appear a full account, with photographs, of a very unusual service. This was the rescue, on 4th September, by the Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, of five people who had been trapped in...
Category: Services
Going on Board the Festival Ship
The 8i-ton Minehead life-boat being lifted into the Campania (See page 278). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs