LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stalwart Volunteers from Downend, Kmgswood
Stalwart volunteers from Downend, Kmgswood and district branch give a smile for the camera while selling souvenirs at Bristol harbour regatta in August- Volunteers from South Bristol, Tetbury and Nailsea branches also put in hard work during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Years Ago Little and Broad Haven Ladies' Guild Held a Special Opening Ceremony for Their New Souvenir Shop and In 1980 They Doubled Their First Year's Takings to £6000 Other Recent Fund Rai
Two years ago Little and Broad Haven ladies' guild held a special opening ceremony for their new souvenir shop and in 1980 they doubled their first year's takings to £6,000. Other recent fund raising events have included a grand... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report. 1892
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
A Delight In Flag Days
PEOPLE sometimes complain of flag days. Collectors, perhaps, sometimes feel a little weary of them, but to those who come fresh to them they are evidently a delight. An organising secretary of the Institution recently wrote of a flag day:...
Category: Articles
Clarity and a Dutch Vessel
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.11 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the motor vessel Clarity was reported to be dragging her anchor and running aground half-amile west of No. 4 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30)...
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....
A Bembridge Life-Boatman Swims to a Yacht
A Bembridge Life-Boatman Swims To A Yacht. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One Hundred Years Old
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to August 31st, 1952 - 77,894 One Hundred Years Old By I. O. Evans,...
Category: Articles
Edward Heath Autographs a Cook Book for Miss Great Britain Sue Cuff of Morecambe
Edward Heath autographs a Cook Book for Miss Great Britain, Sue CuffofMorecambe.. - View image in PDF
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A Naval Sea Otter Seaplane
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.32 in the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a naval Sea Otter seaplane had made a forced landing in Porthcothan Bay, and was attempting to taxi to Padstow. At 4.15 the No. 1 life-boat...