LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
13061 search results for 'royal family'
List view Card view

Men Behind the Medals

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

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

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

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

None (1)

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

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

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

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

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

. . . 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

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

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

Gopak Ltd.

Date: Winter 1986

Volume: 49

Issue: 495

(rfGopak FOLDING TABLES * SOLD DIRECT FROM FACTORY * * GENEROUS DISCOUNTS * In need of neat lightweight tables for your fund-raising events.. . ? We offer you the opportunity to TRY A TABLE on a sale or return basis.

We are...

Category: Advertisement

Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

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

Date: January 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 31

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)

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

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...