LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Life-Boat Depot
IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...
Category: Articles
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collections, 1929-30
WE publish below a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th Sep- tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, four Scottish, and two...
Category: Branches
Lamorna (1)
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
On June 13 1982 Halesowen Branch
On June 13, 1982, Halesowen branch held its second Fun Gala for the 12 primary and junior Stourbridge schools whose children come for their swimming lessons to Mrs Jean Hadley (centre), the branch honorary secretary. It was indeed fun, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swimmers In Action
When the Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season was out on exercise on 25th August, they were signalled by a fishing coble.
When they went alongside they found that she had a trawl warp round her propeller. The two...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Tale
Sound Services Ltd., Merton Park, London, who handle films for the R.N.L.I., said last year that following the loan of the film Part Time Heroes to Woodridge Junior Middle and Infants' School, Southover, North Finchley, London, they...
Category: Articles
One Hundred Years Old
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 August 31st, 1952 - 77,894 One Hundred Years Old By I. O. Evans,...
Category: Articles
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Santa Fe
Torbay, Devon. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the hon- orary secretary a report that a small sailing dinghy had capsized in Mansands Bay and that her crew of two were in the water. At 12.55...
Lantyan
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a...