LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£43 for a Cigarette-Tin
THE Institution has received a gift of £43 5s. from the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company. It was the result of an auction on board the Warwick Castle of a cigarette-tin engraved by the captain..
Category: Donations
Five Members of Rayners Lane
Five members of Rayners Lane branch raised more than £300 in a six-mile sponsored canoe paddle on the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire on Saturday June 19—and it rained! The team took it in turn to paddle the canoe, generously donated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Although Not Part of the Little Ships Flotilla African Queen
Although not part of the Little Ships flotilla African Queen, the boat made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the film of the same name, attempted to make the passage to Dunkirk. She got into difficulties and had to be towed into Ramsgate by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Limited Inside Back Cover Cogswell & Harrison Limited 71 Evett Sailwear Limited 68 Functional Clothing Inside Front Cover David Jolly (Tiller Master) 72 Manuscript Limited Back Cover Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Day In Capetown.
The first life-boat day to be held in oae af the Dominions for the British beat Service was held ia Capetown on February 4th. It raised £1506. This day vas of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price has beea making throughout the Union of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ixion
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
Penlee Formal Investigation
The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...
Category: Articles
Frederick Upton,
Frederick Upton, coxswain of Walmer lifeboat from 1945 to 1962. He joined the crew in 1938, serving as bowman from 1941 to 1942 and second coxswain from 1942 until his appointment as coxswain.
He was awarded a Silver medal...
Category: Obituaries
An Anson Aeroplane (3)
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson trainer aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 7s..
The Prime Minister -•- and An Onion.
A gift of two pounds has come from the recreation club of a motor works.
It was raised by the sale of a model of the Prime Minister and — an onion..
Category: Articles