LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1933.

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59 0 6 ••• • •• •••• ••• •• ••i B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-...

BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of...

ON the night of August 16th, 1938, the steam trawler Nogi, of London, went ashore about 300 yards N.W. of the lighthouse on Straw Island, which lies off Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. A strong...

15th August. A motor yacht ran aground but declined help.—Rewards, £5 12s..

(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.

With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF

Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-boat.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., G.C.V.O., R.N., named the new motor life-boat at Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, on 15th March last. This is the eighth motor life-boat which he has...

HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...

NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...