LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girls from Hastings High School Visited Their Local Lifeboat Station In March to Present a Cheque for £600 to Hastings and St.Leonards Branch the Result of Their 1977 C
Girls from Hastings High School visited their local lifeboat station in March to present a cheque for £600 to Hastings and St Leonards branch, the result of their 1977 charity project: it is twice as much as they have ever collected... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Finnish Steamer Axel
Holyhead, Anglesey. — 24th October, 1937. A distress message had been received from the Finnish steamer Axel, which was on fire. She had, however, given a wrong bearing. She was not off Holyhead, but off the Dutch coast. Her crew were...
The Bradford Exchange
A field full of poppies swaying in the brce/e. brightening the countryside with their crimson splendour, is a inily beautiful sight to behold. Now ni can enjoy one of Britain's most popular flowers in all its shimmering glory all-year...
Category: Advertisement
Index to the Branches
PAGE ABERDEEN . . 782 ABERDOVEY . . 760 ABERSOCH . . 729 ABEBYSTWTTH . 727 ACOCK'S GREEN . 775 ALDEBURGH . , 769 ALLOA . . . . 786 ALNMOUTH . . 763 ANGLE . . . . 766 ANGLESEY. . . 726 ANSTBUIHER . . 788 APPLEDOBE . . 736 ARANMORE . . 798...
Category: Branches
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...
Category: Articles
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex and The Humber, Yorkshire.
LIEUTENANT H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, E.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the Motor Life-boat which was sent last autumn to Southend-on-Sea, on 8th July last, the name given to the boat...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Saving Crew
THE storm rages fierce, the billows roll high, Now lashing the shore and then kissing the sky, 'Mid wild supplication of agonized prayer, Whilst cries ring the air, now from lips in despair - Hark I the life-saving crew, The life-saving...
Category: Poetry
Some Ways of Raising Money
Since 1972, the Crystal Vaudeville Company, made up of local amateurs, has put on three successful seasons of Old Tyme Music Hall shows in Aberystwyth. All proceeds go to charity, and in 1974, for the second time, a donation was made to the...
Category: Donations
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1880
Jan. 1.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Insti- tution, with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to the EARL of DUMORE, and 51. to three fishermen, in acknowledgment of their gallant services in putting off in an open boat, and proceeding,...
Category: Articles
The Barges Cabby and Colluna
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.12 A.M. on the 15th March, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that two barges were in need of help to the east of the coastguard station. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...