LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
A Ride on a Bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee
A ride on a bicycle from Newcastle to Dundee in 4'h days is a feat impressive enough in itself, but when one learns that the 212-mile ride was made on a penny farthing bicycle and by a 73-year-old man, Jock Harrison, well, that is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition, was held this year for the eleventh time. As in the previous year, the Institution has pre- sented eight Challenge Shields and 280 individual awards, that is to say, a Challenge...
Category: Articles
(Right) Hrh Princess Michael of Kent Receives a Bouquet from Arabella Romilly at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball Last November It Is the First Time Prince and Princes
(Right) HRH Princess Michael of Kent receives a bouquet from Arabella Romilly at the Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball last November. It is the first time Prince and Princess Michael of Kent have attended the ball, which is held at the Dorchester... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Stamps
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
Category: Articles
Helsingoe, of Elsinore
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the 22nd of May last, Captain the Hon the unavoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. Amongst those present on the occasion were...
Category: Meetings
Countrywide Assured Retirement Services
Are you 70 or over and a Homeowner? Would you like an extra income, guaranteed for life? Get more from your retirement with Home Income Gold™ from Countrywide Assured Retirement Services, specialist consultants for equity release and home...
Category: Advertisement
General Summary of 1867
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 35 vessels saved by them . . . . . . . .
Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c. . . . .
Amount of Pecuniary Rewards for saving Life during the...
Category: Annual Reports