LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mersey makes her mark
Exmouth lifeboat volunteers received a Mersey class lifeboat in May as a replacement for their Trent. Although another all-weather lifeboat, the Margaret Jean’s shallower draught proved more suited to the location when, on 8 May, she...
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Ormsby Queen
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 7.42 p.m. on loth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ormsby Queen had an injured man on board. At 10.35 the trawler requested the help of the life-boat to convey the man...
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Flag Days: An Answer to the Critics
THE following was taken from the editorial column of the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, for the 9th of July.
"The caustic criticisms which Corn- wall Police Authority have lately made about flag days may have...
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The Prince's Appeal to Shipping. The First Response: Gift of Three Motor Life-Boats
FOUR of the leading shipping companies have responded to the appeal on behalf of the Life-boat Service which the Prince of Wales made to shipping in his presidential address at the Annual Meeting of the Institution last...
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Adventures of An Old Life-Boat
IN 1901 the Institution stationed at Queenstown, on the south coast of Ireland, a pulling and sailing life-boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches in beam, with a draught of 37f inches. She was named James Stevens No. 20, and...
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Six Penny Stamps
FOUB years ago a lady living at Wylde Green, near Birmingham, asked the Prince of Wales to give her six penny stamps as capital to start a business on behalf of the Life-boat Service. The Prince sent the stamps, and a flourishing business,...
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Fishing Boats
The new motor Life-boat John A. Hay was launched in a strong S.E. gale to assist some of the small fishing boats, engaged in lobster fishing, which were in difficulties, owing to the severity of the weather. The Life-boat searched for some...
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A Gift of Gold
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
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