LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Would You Serve These People?
Would you serve these people? That was the question facing the landlords of 22 Isle of Wight pubs recently when regulars of the Commercial Inn decided to raise money for charity.
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Majestic of Dundee
On the 26th Oc- tober, 1859, the schooner Majestic, of Dun- dee, ran for the harbour of Benvick-on- Tweed, it blowing a heavy gale at that time from the N.E. She succeeded in crossing the bar, but drove ashore on Spittal Point. The life-boat...
Ivy
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At half past four in the afternoon on the 20th of February, 1950, pilots reported that distress flares had been seen close to The Hook, Co. Wexford. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Annie Blanche...
Castle Cove
MFV sinks BLYTH LIFEBOAT station motor mechanic, John Scott, called up Tynemouth Coastguard at 1825 on Tuesday December 7, 1982, to tell them that the lifeboat would be sailing for a rough weather exercise. He was informed that the fishing...
Philatelic souvenirs
IT is NOW MORE than four years since the series of official RNLI commemorative covers was started. These colourful philatelic souvenirs of events in the life of the Institution were first issued in 1974 during the 150th anniversary year,...
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Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn Known to Everyone As Maudie Comes from a Seafaring Family and Has Given So Much Help to the Lifeboat Service Over Many Years Th
Mrs Bill Bennett of the Dolau Inn, known to everyone as Maudie, comes from a seafaring family and has given so much help to the lifeboat service over many years that she has been made an honorary member of New Quay ladies' guild, Dyfed.... - View image in PDF
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Methodist Sunday School Interest
THE lesson proposed for the senior department of Methodist Sunday schools for Sunday the 18th of August was devoted to the work of the Institution. The notes issued on the senior course gave a brief account of the organisation of the service...
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Snowdon
During a whole W.S.W. gale on the night of the 20th February signals of distress were observed fr«m a vessel in.
the St. Tudwell's Eoads. Throughout the day it had been seen that the vessels there had been having...
A Splendid Ten Foot Model of the Rnli Medina Lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma Is Named By Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson President of Newton Abbot Branch Lt John Gorrill Chairman of Th
A splendid ten foot model of the RNLI Medina lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma is named by Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson, president of Newton Abbot branch. Lt John Gorrill, chairman of the branch who once served aboard HMS Kelly under Earl... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...
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