LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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This month (October), the Freemasons’ Grand Charity funds its second introductory B class course at the Lifeboat College in Poole, at a cost of £24,000. The Freemasons made a commitment last year to support probationary crew training by...
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The Danish Motor Trawler C. Risager
JUNE 18TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 11.3 P.M. the harbour master reported through the coastguard that a fishing vessel was in distress two and a half miles south-west of Maryport, and at 11.32 P.M. the motor life-boat...
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JUNE 23RD. - ST. PETER PORT, GUERNSEY. At 1 P.M. the harbour master telephoned to the coxswain asking for the lifeboat to go to Alderney to take off six people, two of whom were injured and would have to travel on stretchers. This was a part...
Constance
OCTOBER 17TH. - HOYLAKE , CHESHIRE. During the evening the lifeboat telephone messenger saw flares in the Hilbre Swash, bearing approximately 300° from the life-boat house, and reported them to the coastguard. Then, at 7.32 P.M., the...
The S.S. Marklyn
JANUARY 21ST. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 5.40 A.M. information came from the coastguard that a vessel had been reported ashore near Crammagh. He asked that the life-boat should stand by.
A S.E. gale...
Lady Sophia
DECEMBER 9TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
About eight at night some of the life-boatmen saw a ship signal SOS by morse and fire a rocket, and at the same time the coastguard reported a vessel in distress about six miles...
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Tow the goat ashore! Tiffany, Timothy, Chocolate Drop, Snuffles and Gem were five goats who had got quite used to their lonely existence on the isle of Inchkeith in the Forth estuary.
When the Allandale Animal Sanctuary...
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER,...
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Sjofna, of Oslo (1)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
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