LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Men Behind the Medals
The Annual Presentation of Awards Ceremony in London provides a rare opportunity to gather together some of the year's medal winners and allow them to talk about their lifeboats, their services and their methods and views.Silver...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This...
Category: Donations
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Galway Bay.—At 11.30 in the morn- ing of the 25th of February, 1949, a doctor asked for the help of the life- boat to take an urgent maternity case to the mainland. No other suitable boat was available, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was...
Avonglen
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 7th July the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden. The weather was fine, but later the S.W. wind freshened, and as there was a fairly heavy swell, it was decided...
While (Right) Skip of Reading
. . . while (right) Skip, of Reading, a real river dog, lets it be known exactlv where his sympathies lie! Both photographs were sent in by our verv good friend Lvnn David of Days Lock, River Thames.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast
EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea. The crew of three were seen clinging to...
Category: Services
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
FRASERURGH, SCOTLAND. A life-boat station has been established at Frazerburgh by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in conjunction with the Harbour Commissioners of that port. The life-boat is on the Institution's plan, designed by Mr....
Category: Articles
A Canberra Aircraft (2)
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...