LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Poole guild, formed twelve years ago with ten members, now has a membership of 700 and since 1969 it has raised 63,000; the total last year exceeded 15,000. Members of the guild man both a lifeboat caravan on Poole Quay, which took...
Category: Donations
Coming Into Life-Boat House
Twenty men were present at the annual meeting, on l l th May, 1938, to receive awards for gallantry. This is the largest number which has ever attended the annual meeting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launches
_Listing ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct27 D-536:Oct 24,27; Nov 11 ABERDOVEY B-75& Sep 13,29;Oa 2.3(x2),22; Nov 23 ABERSOCH B-582: Sep 5,13.15,20 ABERYSTWYTH B-704;Sep 1.3,8,29(x2); Oct 3(x2),6.9(x3) ACHILL ISLAND ON-122B(14-24):Sep19; Oct 9...
Category: Services
Life-Belts for Fishermen
IN 1882 the Committee of the Institution, being deeply impressed with the serious loss of life from drowning taking place year by year from the Fishing Vessels working to and from the coasts of the United Kingdom, decided, with the hope of...
Category: Articles
Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
Category: Articles
Service Awards
Awards to coxswains, crew members and shore helpers The following people were awarded certificates of service on their retirement in 2000.
* denotes coxswain Names in italic have served at least 30 years Names in blue have...
Category: Awards
Books
• There is a rich seam of historical booklets to report this autumn: In recent years it has been recognised that a boat specifically for lifesaving was established at Formby Point on the approaches to Liverpool as early as 1776....
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure for 1950
1949 £ i. d.
188,742 6 4 289 10 6 52,029 6 11 7,139 18 4 173 15 10 84,005 5 4 16,391 1 - 880' 11 6 2,256 19 6 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FOR 1950 Expenditure ...
Category: Accounts
Coxswains of Three Lifeboats Which Were on Service for More Than 20 Hours at the Height of the Fastnet Storm:
Coxswains of three lifeboats which were on service for more than 20 hours at the height of the Fastnet storm:. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs