LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...
Category: Articles
Mr Walter Jones a Retired Miner of Nottingham Was So Impressed By the Courage of Lifeboatmen He Saved a Little Each Week from His Pension to Leave to the Bridlington
Mr Walter Jones, a retired miner, of Nottingham, was so impressed by the courage of lifeboatmen he saved a little each week from his pension to leave to the Bridlington lifeboat. It was his favourite holiday resort and he would go nowhere... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Mr. ROBERT LEES has been elected an HONORARY LIFE-GOVERNOR of the Institution in recognition of the valuable help which he has given to the life-boat service as honorary secretary of the Wicklow...
Category: Awards
Feature Advancing a Great Cause
In March 1999 the RISILI celebrated 175 years of service to those in peril on the sea. March 2002 marked another historic milestone - 150 years' continuous publication of the Lifeboat, the magazine of the Royal National Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
D.S.M. for Two Coxswains.
The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (75)
AUGUST 9TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down at the east end of Pendine Sands, but the pilot got, ashore unaided and the aeroplane was recovered later. - Rewards, £10 7s..
New Equipment—From the Boat Show
FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
In brief BRANCHES in North Wales had a busy Summer - Holyhead ladies raised £1,200 from the sale souvenirs and Volvo draw tickets at the Anglesey show; Llandudno branch raised £1,150 from collection boxes and souvenirs at an...
Category: Articles
Trawler in trouble
20 January: Baltimore Help was needed fast when a 20m fishing trawler lost steering near Cape Clear late at night in winds blowing force 4–5, whipping up a 3m swell. Baltimore crew were on hand and, having...
Category: Articles
Times of Liverpool
On the 26th August, during a strong westerly gale, information was received at this Life-boat station that a large vessel was ashore about four miles distant. The Life-boat Jessie Knowles was taken along the shore on her carriage until she...