LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fund Raising at Sporting Events By Peter Holness
A WAY of raising funds is to hold collections at sporting events, such as professional football matches, race meetings and dog track meetings, all of which attract large gates. Four London football clubs were helpful in 1970 and each allowed...
Category: Articles
The Bravest Life-Boatman of the Year
UNDER the will of Miss Maud Smith, of Chesham Place, London, who died in February, 1943, £200 was given to the Institution for investment, from which a sum not exceeding £5 was to be given in January of each year to the...
Category: Articles
Gladonia
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1934.
£ s. d.
58 6 0 •••• ••••••••• •••••H B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats...
Category: Accounts
Eight Men Rescued from French Trawler
AT 3.49 on the afternoon of the 8th of November, 1956, the honorary secre- tary at St. David's, Dr. Joseph Soar, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was being towed into Milford Haven and might need help. The Angle life-boat at the...
Category: Services
The Walmer Life-Boat
HARK ! a distant gun is sounding .
O'er the waters, wildly bounding; Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night On the shore the breakers, roaring, Loud as thunder now are pouring; Far a signal high...
Category: Poetry
Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat lottery
SUMMER LOTTERY
Ms Oke of Cheshire scooped the £5,000 first prize in the Summer Lifeboat
Lottery and enjoyed a visit to Hoylake Lifeboat Station to celebrate her win.
Category: Articles
Exeter
At last, Private Medical Insurance that won't k raise our premiums • just because W we get older." * Subscriptions do increase to reflect the rising incidence and costs of treatment together with developments in medical...
Category: Advertisement
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...