LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of a Meeting of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the Finance Committee be re-named "Finance and General Purposes Committee." Paid £27,617 Is. 7d. for the...
Category: Committee
The Motor Boats Sea Witch and Veronica, and a Catamaran
At 12.58 p.m. on i6th October, 1966, a small catarmaran with an elderly man on board was seen in difficulties half a mile north west of the coastguard look-out.
The man appeared to be exhausted. The life-boat Elizabeth...
Visit of the Prince of Wales to Newquay, Cornwall
FOE the second time within two years Newquay has been fortunate enough to receive a Royal visit, and has thus been the means of illustrating the deep interest taken by our kingly Patron in the national service which it is the privilege of...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Seafield, Quilty, Co. Clare.—At 7.30 A.M. on the 2nd December, 1933, a curragh, which was returning from the fishing grounds,...
Category: Services
The Last of a Famous Life-Boat Crew
BY the death, on 20th May last, of Mr.
Charles Verrion, of Ramsgate, at the age of 85, passed away the last member of the famous Ramsgate Crew which carried out, just over fifty years ago, one of the most remarkable rescues...
Category: Obituaries
Admiralty Register of Wrecks for the Year 1852
THE Blue Book under the above title which is annually presented to Parliament has just been published for the year 1852.
It comes at an appropriate time. Wintry gales, long nights, and dark fogs are the fit accompaniments...
Category: Articles
Raymond Baxter Who Opened ' the Modern Lifeboat' Exhibition Studying Crew Position and Vhp Radio of the Atlantic 21 With Miss Margaret Weston Director of the Scie
Raymond Baxter, who opened ' The Modern Lifeboat' exhibition, studying crew position and VHP radio of the Atlantic 21 with Miss Margaret Weston, Director of the Science Museum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig Receives His Bronze Medal for the Service to the Fishing Vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 Presentat
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig receives his Bronze medal for the service to the fishing vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 presentation of awards ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Constant Procession Board the 52Ft Arun for a Closer Look Round She Was Lying Alongside the Depot Quay Astern of the Prototype 47Ft Tyne
A constant procession board the 52ft Arun for a closer look round. She was lying alongside the depot quay, astern of the prototype 47ft Tyne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924
Left–Right: The lifeboat Alexandra now welcomes guests as a B&B; Work inderway on the Manchester and Salford restoration; the Manchester and Salford’s naming ceremony in 1924 - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs