LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CUMBERLAHD.—On the 17th April, 1866, information was received, during a strong gale from W.S.W., that a schooner was on shore on Dub Mill Scar, about eight miles E N.E. of this place, with a flag of distress flying. In a very short time the...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Calendar for 1929
THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar for the forthcoming year. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Lifeboat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it...
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Eastbourne Life-Boat Day: The R.A.F. Band Leading the Procession
This Day raised the record sum of over £724.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter from Page 3
branch and guild members have met the challenge with their usual enthusiasm, sheer hard work—and success.
Perhaps the most important statistic of all is the number of lives rescued in the past ten years: almost 12,500. That...
Category: Articles
A Photograph Taken In 1966 of Some of Sheringham's Retired Lifeboatmen
A photograph taken in 1966 of some of Sheringham's retired lifeboatmen. Left to right: Teddy 'Fiddy' West, Bob 'Joyful' West (father of today's 'Joyful'), Jimmy 'Paris' West, Henry 'Joyful'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: Cape Town's 12M Lifeboat.
Right: Cape Town's 12m lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Tractor for Launching
DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...
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£137 from a Picture Catalogue
AN exhibition of Dutch and Flemish pictures was held in his Bond Street gallery, in May and June, by Mr.
Eugene Slatter, and he very kindly gave the money from the sale of the catalogues to the Institution. The exhibition...
Category: Donations
Accident to Life-Boat Inspector
LIEUT. E. D. STOGDON, R.N.V.R., Eastern District Inspector of Life-boats, suffered a serious accident at Hastings on the 27th of July, 1958. The life-boat was about to be launched in connection with the celebration of the hundredth...
Category: Articles