LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How You Are Likely to End Up After Competing In the 'Daft Raft Race' Organised By Shetland Branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club In Lerwick Harbour Crews and Their Craft In Last May's Race Were
How you are likely to end up after competing in the 'Daft Raft Race' organised by Shetland branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club in Lerwick Harbour. Crews and their craft in last May's race were judged for ingenuity, bravery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lachinedoc, of Panama
OCTOBER 18TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.7 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a four-masted steamer drifting towards the rocks. Her position was given...
Marine Artist Patrick Donovan Has Produced This Evocative Watercoiour of Agnes Cross
Marine artist Patrick Donovan has produced this evocative watercoiour of Agnes Cross picking up survivors off Dover during the Dunkirk evacuation He writes: 'Mr Hills tells me that she did this on a number of occasions during the period... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Lifeboats on the Thames
RNLI Lifeboats On The Thames. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Appledore- Tyne Class George Gibson
Appledore's new Tyne class lifeboat was named at a ceremony at the town's quay on 25 June 1988.
Major David Gibson, elder son of George Gibson, the donor after whom the boat is named, handed the boat over to Air... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lives and Yacht Saved
COXSWAIN JOHN Fox and the young crew of the Shoreham life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for the rescue of two people from a...
Category: Services
Coxswains All: Left to Right Aboard the Watson Cabin Motor Lifeboat Civil Service No 5 Hugh Nelson Coxswain from 1949 to 1954 Andrew White Coxswain from 1917 to 1
Coxswains all: Left to right, aboard the Watson cabin motor lifeboat Civil Service No. 5, Hugh Nelson, coxswain from 1949 to 1954, Andrew White, coxswain from 1917 to 1949, and Alexander Nelson, coxswain from 1954 to 1960. The photograph was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...
Category: Donations
Mrs. Finch, of Chelmsford
By the death of Mrs. Finch of Chelms- ford, on 15th August, the Institution has lost an honorary worker whose devotion to the life-boat service was shown by her refusal to give up her work for it, even when disabled by serious illness. Mrs....
Category: Obituaries
A Nimrod Maritime Jet Aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command Flying Over the Pentland Firth When the New Longhope Life-Boat (Centre), Which Is a 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent, Was Escorted to Her New Station
A Nimrod maritime jet aircraft of R.A.F. Strike Command flying over the Pentland Firth when the new Longhope life-boat (centre), which is a 48-foot 6-inch Solent, was escorted to her new station by (in the lead) 52-foot reserve life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs