LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Time and time again comes the news that a branch or guild has passed all its previous achievements. There is Swansea which, with special efforts for Jubilee year, raised a record of £3,214. Then, at Lymington, the branch and guild...
Category: Donations
The Seamen's Story
WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...
Category: Articles
Appledore June 21 1986:
Appledore, June 21, 1986: Mrs Trevor Thomas demonstrates the only way to christen an Atlantic 21. In this case it was Manchester and District No XXXII, funded by an appeal inspired by a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr Trevor Thomas. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above; the Brand New Lifeboat Station
Above; The brand new lifeboat station draws upon Victorian-style architecture in sympathy with the famous Blackpool Tower buittinthe 1390s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Totland
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1953, the Walton coastguard reported that he had been informed by the master of the Cork lightvessel that the ketch-rigged yacht Totland was drift- ing slowly about...
The S.S. E. Rose
At daybreak on 10th February the s.s. E. Rose, of Great Yarmouth, bound, in ballast, from Ply- mouth to Boston, Lines., with a crew of six on board, was seen by the Coxswain to be in difficulties dangerously near a lee shore between...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Hugh Nelson, of Donaghadee, Co. Down. He was appointed cox- swain in July, 1949, after serv- ing for twenty vears as second coxswain..
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at the Torbay Inaugural Ceremony
(The Prince is speaking from the platform on the left.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. President Emile Marcesche
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.28 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had wirelessed that a vessel appeared to be aground three miles south by west of the lightvessel, and at 4...
Death of King Edward VII., Patron of the Institution
The Institution in common with the whole Empire, mourns the decease of His Majesty King Edward the Seventh.
First as President and then as Patron, His Majesty took the warmest interest in the affairs of the Institution and...
Category: Obituaries