LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS from many thousands of people, all, as it were, like threads being twisted together to form one rope of great strength, form the basis of Shoreline support for the lifeboat service. Year by year the sum of these...
Category: Articles
Two Yachts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.5 oil the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the Wallasey Ya;ht Club that two yachts had capsized half a mile north-west of Rock Light. Ten minutes later the...
The Life-Boat Collecting Box at Land's End
In the distance the Longships Lighthouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1900
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Category: Meetings
Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have already been arranged for the summer.
The dates, however, are subject to alteration. This list does not include a large number of places where days...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1856
Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England, and seconded by Rear-Admiral C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, C.B.
1. That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by...
Category: Meetings
Silver Medal for Sheringham Coxswain
AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
Category: Services
New Ways of Raising Money
Harrow County School, Middlesex, in April got sponsors for ''bar billiards'.
Five boys played billiards continually for 72 hours, thereby breaking the world record for this type of event. At the time it was...
Category: Donations
Life first
Selflessness
We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...
Category: Articles
Barmouth: at the Naming of Rnlb Princess of Wales
Barmouth: At the naming of RNLB Princess of Wales last November a fine painting of the lifeboat was presented to HRH The Princess of Wales by the lifeboat crew. It was by crew member and art teacher Tony Jeffs, seen here (r) with his father,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs