LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Ways of Raising Money
When the Barnt Green ladies' life-boat guild had their annual meeting the collecting box from the Barnt Green sailing club was opened. It contained over £3 —mostly in half-crowns. This is because there is a local rule in the sailing...
Category: Donations
You Can Raffle a Gallon of White Horse Anywhere; This Bottle of Whisky Donated By Its
You can raffle a gallon of White Horse anywhere; this bottle of whisky, donated by its distillers, raised £230.50 at Campbeltown Agricultural Show last August. The picture shows Campbeltown ladies' guild president, Mrs A. Wallace,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Slipway Opens at Ackergill In April 1910 the Lifeboat at the Ceremony Is Co-Operator No 3
A new slipway opens at Ackergill in April 1910. The lifeboat at the ceremony is Co-Operator No 3.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Older Lifeboats Had An Honoured Place: the Elliott Gill (Left) One of the Liverpool Lifeboats and Robert and Ellen Robson the Ex- Whitby Pulling Boat a Launching Tract
Older lifeboats had an honoured place: The Elliott Gill (left), one of the Liverpool lifeboats, and Robert and Ellen Robson, the ex- Whitby pulling boat. - View image in PDF
A launching tractor nearby was a constant joy to children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just one inch of water
Drowning is a silent epidemic that claims an estimated 360,000 lives
every year, many of them children. This summer, we brought this to the attention of world leaders, with a photographic exhibition at the UN Headquarters in New...
Category: Articles
For More Than 40 Years Two Generations of Two Families
For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby who died on the 22nd December, 1965 at the age of 52 was an active supporter and friend of the life-boat service. To a man, such as he was, of great personal courage and deep sincerity and with a passionate interest in...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Cross Again.
Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber, who has won, since war began, the George Medal, the Institution's gold medal, a clasp to his silver medal and the thanks of the Institution on vellum, has now won also a clasp to his bronze medal.<...
Category: Articles
Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First Cuffley Scout Troop Raised Money By Building a Paper 'Mountain1—15 Tons of Waste Paper and Card Photograph By Courtesy of Hertfordshire Mercury
First Cuffley Scout troop raised money by building a paper 'mountain1—15 tons of waste paper and card. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Hertfordshire Mercury.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs