LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant Visited South Wales at the End of November Mrs Farrant Presented a Ship''s Bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the Crew of the Ba
When Major-General and Mrs Farrant visited South Wales at the end of November, Mrs Farrant presented a ship''s bell to Coxswain Edward Powell and the crew of the Barry 52' lifeboat Arun. It was to commemorate the first visit she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launching of the Hastings Life-Boat Fairlight
The Launching of the Hastings Life-Boat Fairlight. - View image in PDF
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Naming of the New Anstruther Life-Boat the Doctors
Naming of the New Anstruther Life-Boat The Doctors. - View image in PDF
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The RNLI At Lough Swilly In The Republic Of Ireland
The RNLI at Lough Swilly in the Republic of Ireland. - View image in PDF
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Each Year the 420 Pupils of Knowle Church of England Junior School Organise a Charity Lent Project
Each year the 420 pupils of Knowle Church of England Junior School organise a charity Lent Project, and this year they raised £783 for the RNLl. First year pupils ran a bring and buy stall; the second year a sponsored spell; the third... - View image in PDF
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The Central Appeals Committee
THE GAG secretary has a new telephone number, 66 38209, on which both the secretary and the chairman, Mr. R. N. Crumbie, can be reached. The address remains the same: 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent.
The 1972 national...
Category: Committee
The Polar Challenge
RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
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Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...
Category: Obituaries
Rose of Lancaster
OPERATION AT SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5 a.m. on nth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Rose of Lancaster of Liverpool had a sick man on board who required medical attention. There was a...
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles