LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the...
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Mrs D.E. Fison,
Mrs D.E. Fison, who generously helped to defray the cost of the Harwich lifeboat John Fison..
Category: Obituaries
June
MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s.and towed her to a berth in Walton River.
She...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Flamborough Cobles - Quest, Doreen May, Imperialist, and Boy's Own
DECEMBER 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. During the morning the wind increased, and the life-boat coxswain who was out fishing returned. By eleven o’clock a northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain squalls, and as some of the...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Alexander Nelson of Donaghadee. He has been a member of the Donaghadee life-boat crew since 1912. He was appointed bowman in 1929, second coxswain in 1949, and coxswain in 1954. During the period of a...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Evan Wright, of Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire. He served as second coxswain from June, 1905, until January, 1912.
He was then appointed coxswain, so that he has been coxswain for...
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The Indefatigable Chelsea Pensioners
The indefatigable Chelsea Pensioners collected a staggering £12,000 at the London Boat Show. From left to right: Robert Moy, Bert Spurdin, George Woolf, Dave Law and Doug Young.
Behind them are John Race (left) and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamship Boeton
At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...