LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Falmouth's Severn the Will
0700 on "eclipse day', 11 August 1999, and Falmouth's Severn The Will waits to put to sea on stand-by. Already the dawn sunshine has given way to a heavy overcast sky.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Spray
At 2.52 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, a fishing vessel had broken down about one mile off the coastguard lookout hut at Foreness point and one of the five occupants was waving an oar with a white shirt attached. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,...
Well Dressing Is An Old Custom In Derbyshire and Here Is a Magnificent Example of the Art Created at Holymoorside Last August Usually Well Dressings Have a Religious Theme But Last Year Chest
Well dressing is an old custom in Derbyshire and here is a magnificent example of the art, created at Holymoorside last August.
Usually well dressings have a religious theme but last year Chesterfield and District branch... - View image in PDF
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The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
The French Dandy Henri et Helene
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...
Record of the Branches: 1925—1926. The 20 Branches With the Highest Collection
The 2ft Branches with WE publish below a, table showing the leading Branches with their contributions.
All of them were among the first twenty last year except Salisbury and District, Margate and Worthing, which take the...
Category: Donations
Royal Archer, of Leith
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were received from the coastguard and the Royal Naval Signal Station that a steamer with 120 passengers on board had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy,...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William Henry Glendewar, of St. Helier, Jersey. He was an officer of the life-boat for twenty-six years, serving as second-coxswain from January 1913 to March 1919, and then as coxswain until January...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Institution and the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
Category: Articles
Save-A-Can for the Lifeboatman
Save-a-can for the lifeboatman. Eight-year old conservationists Paula Kelly and Mark Chapman are among 84 pupils at Gilberdyke school who collected empty tins as part of a fund raising effort for the lifeboat service. The cans went to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs