LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
Here and There
IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services
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Big problems with little ships I was fascinated to read about the 34 calls to which the Poole lifeboat responded on August Bank Holiday last year. It certainly sounds like the record for one station.
Another interesting set...
Category: Correspondence
Captured In Oils:
Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...
Category: Drawings
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First ever bravery award for an RNLI lifeguard Mark Johnson made RNLI history in December when he was awarded the Thanks on Vellum after saving the life of a man who was being washed out to sea. Mark is the first RNLI beach lifeguard to...
Letters
Keep on running . . .
I refer to the autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT and would appreciate your forwarding to me a supply of marathon sponsorship forms, say 60.—JOHN A.
GALLAGHER, divisional welfare secretary,...
Category: Correspondence
Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1951 - 77,369 Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-boat Service* OUR British race...
Category: Meetings
(Above) More Than 2000 People Attended An Open Air Songs of Praise Organised By St.Austell Branch at Charlestown Harbour
(Above) More than 2,000 people attended an open air Songs of Praise organised by St Austell branch at Charlestown Harbour on July 10. The service was led by the Reverend David Apps.
photograph by courtesy of C. H.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Aberdeen Life-Boat Station
FOR the past seventy years there has been a Life-boat Station at Aberdeen, provided and maintained, not by the Institution, but by the Aberdeen Har- bour Commissioners.
The first Boat for the Station was procured by the...
Category: Articles