LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) After Her Naming Ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday May 2 By Lady Egremont President of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guilds Mary Gabriel 37' 6" Rather Class Wa
(Above) After her naming ceremony at Shoreham on Thursday, May 2, by Lady Egremont, president of the ladies' lifeboat guilds, Mary Gabriel, 37' 6" Rather Class, was taken to her station, Hoylake, in Cheshire. A service of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lucy Fry
'It's good practice to take stock every few years - we want to make sure that we are providing the best possible support with the budget that we have' - Lucy Fry. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Special Gifts
From a Boy of Seven.
The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in...
Category: Donations
Angela May
Filey, Yorkshire - At 1.36 p.m. on I4th August, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the coble Angela May was overdue. In view of the deteriorating weather conditions the life-boat The ha & Penryn Milsted was launched...
Vellum Accorded to National Trust Warden
ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...
Category: Awards
Special Gifts
* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GILES' QUAY, DUNDALK.—On the appli- cation of the local residents, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat Establishment at Giles' Quay, on the north side of Dundalk Bay, it having been considered that a Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Jules Orban de Xivry
PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 5.45 A.M. on the 15th January a telephone message was received at Palling that a vessel was showing signals of distress two miles W.S.W. of the North Hasborough Light-vessel. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Hearts of Oak...
May Lily
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
Special Gifts
From a Submarine Depot-ship.
H.M.S. Cyclops, the submarine depotship, when she was paid off at Chatham in the spring, sent a gift of £30 to the Institution from her canteen funds.
From Two...
Category: Donations