LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service
ON page 100 there is reproduced a set of nine poster stamps, which repre- sents in brief pictorial form the history Of the Life-boat Service of Great Britain. These stamps are not for use on letters through the post but as a Commemorative...
Category: Advertisement
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1864
THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., G.C.B., M.P., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the Chairman :— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide last page for...
Category: Meetings
In September 1922 the Prince David Was Sent to Her Station at Barry Dock'
'In September, 1922 . . . the Prince David, was sent to her station at Barry Dock.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Her Majesty at the Thurso Lifeboat Naming Ceremony In 1989.
Above: Her Maje. - View image in PDF
at the Thurso lifeboat naming ceremony in 1989. - View image in PDF
Scottish Daily Record. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild and New Branches of the Institution
ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever...
Category: Branches
The Chairman of the RNLI Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Pictured With Officials In February at the Tomb of Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bt.
The Chairman of the RNLI, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., pictured with officials in February at the tomb of Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bt., founder of the Institution, at Douglas, Isle of Man. Sir William, who was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Old Life-Boat Station at South Sands from Which the William and Emma Set Out In 1916 and (right) the Names of the 13 Local Life-Boatmen Who Perished In the Disaster
The old life-boat station at South Sands from which the William and Emma set out in 1916 and (right) the names of the 13 local life-boatmen who perished in the disaster. It was Richard Durant, of Sharpham, Totnes, who gave Salcombe its first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Walmer Life-Boat at the Stern of the Dutch Coaster Hunzeborg After the Latter had Been in Collision With a Greek Ship Near the Goodwin Sands on 13th August, 1966
The Walmer life-boat at the stern of the Dutch coaster Hunzeborg after the latter had been in collision with a Greek ship near the Goodwin Sands on 13th August, 1966. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
Category: Articles