LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Two Girl Guide Brass Trefoils Presented to Eastney Ilb Station By 29Th Portsmouth Guide Company Have Been Chrome Plated and Fitted to the Console of Atla
(Below) Two Girl Guide brass trefoils, presented to Eastney ILB station by 29th Portsmouth Guide Company, have been chrome plated and fitted to the console of Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bronze Medal Service at Boulmer
SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.
Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...
Category: Services
List of Launches
oat launches Aberdeen ALB: Mar 17. Apr 17 and May 17 ILB: Mar 17. Apr .S.Apr 16.
May 17 and May 18 Aherdovey ILB: Mar 22 (2) Aberystwyth ILB: Mar 16. Mar IX. Apr 21, Apr 22 and Apr 23 •-..mil ! • l . i i iJ ALB: Mar 30 and...
Category: Services
The Recent Experiments at the South Foreland With Lighthouse Illuminants
THE experiments -with lighthouse illu- minants -which have been in progress at the South Foreland for twelve months, under a Committee of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, were brought to a conclusion in March last, and the Report was...
Category: Articles
"All Sich Things As the Like o' That."
Pulling Chanty.
BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CRAUFURD, R.N., honorary secretary of the Dungeness life-boat station.
" Our men have the advantage of a local knowledge which, if it had been taken into account by...
Category: Songs
An Artist's Memories of the Life-Boat Service. From the Bay of Naples to Solway Firth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320 An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From...
Category: Articles
A Voice from Mesopotamia. Note By the Editor
SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
Category: Articles
The Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard tele- phoned that the Mersey Dock Board No. 4 Pilot Boat had struck a sub- merged object in Moelfre Bay and was in need of help. At...
Percy Garon MC GM : Honorary Secretary of Southend-On-Sea Lifeboat Station from 1952-1975
THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .
they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...
Category: Articles
American Coastal Lifeboat Development: An English Contribution By William D Wilkinson
AS THE RNLI celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to acknowledge the help it has given many lifesaving services throughout the world. This help has taken many forms, one of the most significant being in the area of coastal...
Category: Articles