LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Conference
South-western District.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in Hampshire, Berkshire, East Dorset and Wiltshire was held at Winchester on the 15th March. Representatives from nineteen Branches and Guilds were present, and Sir...
Category: Meetings
Journey's End
Journey's end - Terry George shakes with Kevin Close, surrounded by members of the RNA club and James Bradbury. - View image in PDF
area organiser for Wales and West Mercia.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.
The Calendar.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...
Category: Advertisement
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 13th April, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., in the Chair.
V.P., Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Appointments
FOLLOWING on the retirement of Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., the Committee of Management have appointed Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chief Inspector of Life-boats. Commander Drury, who has been Deputy-Chief...
Category: Committee
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of the Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout the...
Category: Advertisement
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THIS year there will again be a Christmas card and pocket calendar for sale.
The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside. Inside are Christmas greetings and the above picture of a...
Category: Advertisement
Here and There
IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
Category: Articles