LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two New Life-Boats Named
NEW life-boats provided for the stations at Islay (Hebrides) and Penlee (Cornwall) were formally named during the summer. The Islay ceremony took place on the pier at Port Askaig on the 22nd of July, 1960, when Lady Jean Fforde named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
Book Reviews
The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...
Category: Articles
Paul Archer-Jones, Second Coxswain At Rhyl Lifeboat Station
Paul Archer-Jones, Second Coxswain at Rhyl lifeboat station, is a self-employed electrician. He also works on the service boats that take maintenance staff out to the local windfarms.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Three Generations of Boathouses at the Mumbles
Above: Three generations Of boathouses at The Mumbles - the old ALB boathouse is in the right foreground with the new ILB boathouse in the centre and the current slipway station in the distance.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting, 1902
The Bight Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O., First Lord of the Admiralty, IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Right Hon. The EARL OF SELBORNE, P.O.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P.
be...
Category: Meetings
Pictured at the Presentation of the Red Cross Awards
Pictured at the presentation of the Red Cross awards are (from left to right) David Wyatt of the British Red Cross Society), Staff Officer General Duties Richard Perks, John Burke-Gaffney (Director General of the British Red Cross Society)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service at the Festival of Britain
THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes,...
Category: Articles
Over 70 Miles to the Rescue
THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occa- sion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occa- sion she...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Lt E. Gough, the RNLI's staff officer (Communications), sent the message Uniform Whisky One (UW1) to the Boys' Brigade at Aigburth, Liverpool, after they had raised £36 by mounting a display about the sea, doing figure marching...
Category: Donations