LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Record of the Branches
LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
Category: Branches
Lifeboat Services
Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...
Category: Services
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On the 19th of August, 1952, the bowman of the Bridlington life-boat lost his life when the life-boat went to the help of two girls who had got into difficulties while bathing. Awards: the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to...
Clydesdale
At about 5 A.M. on the 5th March signals of dis- tress were made by a vessel on the West Scar Bocks, about 400 yards from the shore. The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched and proceeded to her. She proved to be the steamer Clydesdale,...
Coastal Life
COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
Category: Articles
Foreign coins
Tesco Stores Ltd, the biggest supermarket chain in the British Isles, has kindly agreed to collect foreign coins for the RNLI in their stores from July to September. It is estimated that there are millions of pounds worth of foreign coins,...
Category: Donations
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JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was dangerously ill in one of the forts near the...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1954 79,058 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1954 has been one on which the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
(Below) David John Nelson Son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne Lifeboat and His Wife Joan and Horn on Trafalgar Day 1977 Was Christened By F
(Below) David John Nelson, son of Assistant Mechanic John Buckland of Eastbourne lifeboat and his wife Joan, and horn on Trafalgar Day 1977, was christened by Father Roy Cotton using the ship's bell of the former HMS Eastbourne as font.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs