LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...

Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...

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ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...

ITS WORK.

HPHE Institution is constantly occupied in building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways, wherever required on the Coasts of the United Kingdom: in paying...

OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...

(continued from page 135) service. During the past year £1,300 has been raised in Coventry, and the guild has planted a plane tree on one of the city's lovely greens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...