LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore In the Republic of Ireland
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore in the Republic of Ireland first joined the lifeboat crew in 1955. He became second coxswain in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1972, being awarded a long service badge in 1982. John is a boat builder by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Intrepid Members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club
Five intrepid members of the Lansdowne Indoor Climbing Club, (7 to r) Paul Ward, Mike Boyce, Ian Burgess, Steve Towill and Colin Ward, ready to set out from their base camp at the Lansdowne public house, Dawlish. These men crawled— literally... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bunbeg, Co. Donegal.—At about 5 P.M. on the 14th April Thomas Boyle, of Bunbeg, who had come in from Innishinney Island...
Category: Services
Geronimo! Regular Customers of the Queen O'T'Owd Thatch Pub
Geronimo! Regular customers of the Queen o't'owd Thatch pub in South Milford made a sponsored parachute jump to raise money for Castleford ladies guild. A cheque for £906.50 was later handed over to Brian Stevenson, regional... - View image in PDF
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1858
1.—Moved by Vice-Admiral BOWLES, C.B.
Seconded by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S., late Governor of the Bank of England,— 1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.-—Moved by Rear-Admiral...
Category: Meetings
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
Presentation...
Category: Branches
Troon Lifeboat the 44Ft Waveney Connel Elizabeth Cargill
Troon lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Connel Elizabeth Cargill, leaving Portpulrick in deteriorating weather one Julv morning. She had called in on passage to Holyhead for engine overhaul.
photograph by courtesy of Mr T. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guest Speaker at the Awards Ceremony Richard Branson
Guest speaker at the Awards ceremony Richard Branson with RNLI medal winners Fergal Walsh fright) and Nick Beale. Accounts of their medal-winning rescues can be found on pages 14 and 18 of this magazine respectively.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast
EARLY in October, 1939, a month after war had broken out, four new motor life-boats were ready at Cowes to go to their stations. Two of them, Lowestoft and Hartlepool, were of the 46-feet Watson type, with a cockpit and cabin; the third, for...
Category: Articles
(Above Left) Some of the Orange Paini Flaked Off
(above teft) Some of the orange paini flaked off - but Phit Weeks discovers that a lot of it is still well stuck,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs