LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Warragaburra
Dover, Kent.—At one in the morning of the 6th of October, 1948, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that a yacht was making S.O.S. signals in Langdon Bay,, and at 1.20 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1936
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
Category: Branches
Head Launcher? Robin Sharp
Head launcher? Robin Sharp, area organiser, east, presents a plaque to Nigel Smart, the headmaster of Henley County Primary School, Ipswich, who is suitably attired after his 90 pupils aged between 4'/2 and II raised £388.10 in a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marks New Brighton Lifeboat
Confused? All those in lifejackets in this picture are not lifeboatmen—in fact, it is quite obvious that they are not even men. They are some of the staff of the Liscard, Wallasey, branch of Marks and Spencer who have helped to raise £1... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LEWIS CREESE
LEWIS CREESE
COXSWAIN | ANGLE
On a shout like this, when the crew has been woken up in the early hours of the morning and they’re tired, it helps that everything is already second nature to them. For Jordan (Tuckwell,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nature of the Services By Life-Boats and Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS 1962 No. %of total 1963 No. %of total % of total services 5 10 15 20 25 30 Fishing boats - all types 151 18-1 170 19-7 (1962) | 1963 Motor vessels,...
Category: Services
(Above) They Were Queuing Up to Give to the Rnli In Llford on London Lifeboat Day
(Above) They were queuing up to give to the RNLI in llford on London lifeboat day, when a total of £180,590 was raised in Greater London and the City.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Florence
NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—The schooner Florence, of Belfast, bound to that port from Cardiff with coal, was seen tip be running for Dundrum Bay, apparently in distress, during a strong E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea at about 7.30 A.M. on the 22nd...
"The Book of the Life-Boat."
THIS interesting work, which is beauti- fully illustrated, is, as its title indicates, well calculated to fulfil the object for which it was written. Any seeking information relative to the LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, its operations and its work,...
Category: Articles
Two Lp Records for the Rnli
For more than 30 years the Lifeboat Mixed Voice Choir of Forest Row, Sussex, has sung carols at Christmas time for the RNLI and, in that time, has raised more than £5,000. What started as a small band of singers has grown into an...
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