LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Naylor Swift of the Carmarthen branch of the R.N.L.I, is hoping to start a new fund-raising scheme this year. It is the 'basket supper' where couples bring baskets containing supper for two. Each basket is given a number and the men...
Category: Donations
For Her Righting Trials She Was Hauled Over By Crane (Left and Bottom Left) the Strops Being Tripped (Below Right) When She Was Fully Inverted Within Seconds (Bottom Page 49 J She Had Righted An
For her righting trials she was hauled over by crane (left and bottom left), the strops being tripped (below right) when she was fully inverted. Within seconds (bottom, page 49 j she had righted and cleared the water from her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
Category: Articles
None (1)
Search in fog THICK FOG had descended on Scarborough when, on the night of Saturday July 27, 1985, the lifeboat station's honorary secretary received a report that red flares had been sighted some 2'/2 to 3 miles south of the...
The Autumn Ball Held By Wells Branch
The autumn ball held by Wells branch at the Bishop's Palace last September was an outstanding success and very much enjoyed. As well as a raffle there was an auction for a cricket bat signed by Somerset and Gloucestershire cricket teams... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wolverhampton Branch
There is nothing you might not be called upon to do as honorary secretary of an RNL1 fund-raising branch. Bob Proudlock, honorary secretary of Wolverhampton branch, proved this point when West Midlands Police Sub-Aqua Club, having swum five... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bolivar (1)
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...
Central Appeals Committee
Committee EXCELLENT SUPPORT has continued this quarter for the various projects of the Central Appeals Committee. Captain Phelps, master of John Biscoe of the British Antarctic Survey, on arrival at Southampton handed over more than £31...
Category: Committee
A Fishing Boat (3)
29th November. A fishing boat ran ashore, but a motor- boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £15 9s..