LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ladies of Port Erin Guild Isle of Man Await Their Guests
Preparations finished for their annual cheese and wine evening, the ladies of Port Erin guild, Isle of Man, await their guests. Among the committee members are (extreme I) Mrs D. Maddrell, chairman, widow of former Coxswain Dennis Maddrell,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, for Elementary Schools, 1938
" Imagine that You are the Coxswain of a Life-boat. A Vessel is sending up Rockets of Distress. Describe the Rescue by Your Life-boat." THE essay competition in 1937, in which the writers were asked to imagine that they had...
Category: Articles
Destined for Life-Boat Stations All Over the U.K., the First Ever Delivery of Martell Cognac Was Recently Received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood,
Destined for life-boat stations all over the U.K., the first ever delivery of Martell cognac was recently received at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Borehamwood, Herts. Taken in the depot's rigging loft, the picture shows (left to right)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Albionic
On the afternoon of the 17th October Lloyd's agent reported to the life-boat station that the s.s. Albionic, of Hull, bound from Murmansk for Sharpness with a cargo of timber, was anchored in Broad Bay, about seventeen miles from...
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
Widow of a Bowman
THE bowman of the Walmer life-boat, James Rich, collapsed and died in the life-boat when she went out, on the 24th of December 1950, to the help of the Italian motor vessel Santagata, and rescued her crew of thirty-two. An account of the...
Category: Obituaries
Choice, of Hull
Early on the morning of the 21st May, the smack Choice, of Hull, drove from her anchor at the entrance of the harbour, and fired a gun.
as a signal of distress. The Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and took...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 8. Major Arthur Thomas Fisher, Honorary Secretary of the Salisbury and District Branch
MAJOR ARTHUR THOMAS FISHER founded the Salisbury Branch of the Institution in 1910, has been its Honorary Secretary ever since, and is still its Honorary Secretary at the great age of eighty.
Born on May Day in 1843, he is...
Category: Articles
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited America
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited A merica and left RNLI tea towels at United States Coast Guard bases. Here one of the tea towels is being displayed at the San Francisco base. They were purchased by Mr Pearcy from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scene In Old Market Square Nottingham As the Deputy Lord Mayor Councillor Mrs 1 F Matthews Welcomed Everyone to the Handing Over Ceremony of Rnlb Nottinghamshir
The scene in Old Market Square, Nottingham, as the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Mrs 1. F.
Matthews, welcomed everyone to the handing over ceremony of RNLB Nottinghamshire.
photograph by courtesy of Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs