LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below Right) Grace Darling Led By Philip and Annette Rydin Pulls Grace Darling on Stage During Kiddlington Branch's Second Old Tyme Music Hall Held at Exeter Hal
(Below, right), Grace Darling, led by Philip and Annette Rydin, pulls Grace Darling on stage during Kiddlington branch's second old tyme music hall, held at Exeter Hall in May. On board is Miss Oxford 1979, Debbie Risk. The event made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness Lifeboat Helen Turnbull With Hmy Britannia at Tower Bridge (Below) and (Right) Embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster
River Thames Jubilee Pageant: Sheerness lifeboat Helen Turnbull with HMY Britannia at Tower Bridge (below) and (right) embarking the Lard Mayor of Westminster, for whom she acted as barge. (Left) A fundraising cruise up the Thames following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
As Was Reported In the December, 1967, Issue of the Life-Boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a Member of the IRB Crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler
As was reported in the December, 1967, issue of The Life-boat Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, after their marriage left the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Balance Sheet. 31st December, 1892
£ t. d. £ . d.
To Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fnnd:— Balance from 1891 7 15 9 Dividends received in 1892 49 10 - 57 5 9 Amount expended thereout 13 10 5 43 15 4 „ Blake Life-boat Reward...
Category: Accounts
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st March to 31st May: Launches 359, lives saved 156 MARCH SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had...
Category: Services
Services of Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
IN the first quarter of 1961 exception- ally heavy demands were made on life- boat crews, as the figures for launches clearly reveal. The total number of launches on service in January, Febru- ary and March was 163. In the first three months...
Category: Articles
Each Year Since An Ilb Was First Stationed at Horton and Port Eynon In 1968 Reg James Although Confined to a Wheelchair Has Organised a Gala Sports Day at Burrows Ca
Each year since an ILB was first stationed at Horton and Port Eynon in 1968, Reg James, although confined to a wheelchair, has organised a gala sports day at Burrows caravan park as his contribution to the station. He presents his 1976... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-Five Years of Life-Boat Work. By Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Late Inspector of Life-Boats
IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
Category: Articles
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
Category: Articles