LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (11)
Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...
The Fundraisers
Steeley determination! A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial...
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Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
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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...
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Notes of the Quarter
The last number of THE LIFE-BOAT gave the news that the Institution's deficit in 1967 was likely to exceed £400,000. This has now been confirmed, and the accounts showed that the final figure was £400,084.
The...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Stations I His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.Gk HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF SAXE-COBURG AND GOTHA, DUKE OF EDINBURGH,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION APPEAL., SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patron—His Most gracious Majesty the King,—HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALKS, K.G.
EDWARD BIRKBECK,...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
—His Most Gracious Majesty the King
ROYAL Highness THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
—Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., V.P. Deputy Chairman —Colonel FitzRoy CLAYTON, V.P.
Secretary -CHARLES...
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Two Meteor Aeroplanes (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
Windrise
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.10 on the morning of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Department of In- dustry and Commerce in Dublin rang up to report a wireless message received by Tuskar Rock from the Holyhead coast- guard. The...