LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st August to the 31st October, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
Bose
HONOURED BY FORBES ASAP for CHANGING THE WORLD.
Fortes ASAP magazine rates the Bose" Wave* radio right up there with the light bulb, the compact disc and the telephone. Only tilK-en inventions made their exclusive...
Category: Advertisement
The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition
THE third year of the Essay Competition has brought a number of interesting and very readable essays, and although scarcely up to the excellent standard of the first two years, it can be said that only in a few cases did they fail to show an...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st August to 30th November, 1936
Greater London.
CHINGFORD.—Address to the Rotary Club by the district organizing secretary.
CLAPHAM.—Annual meeting on 20th October, Mrs. Clarke, chairman, presiding.
Speakers :...
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Hilton
A welcome that leaves other Boat Show packages in our wake.
A trip to the London International Boat Show, January 6th - 16th 2000, is even better when you make a Hilton or Stakis Hotel your first port of call. The friendly...
Category: Articles
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
Two Dinghies
RESCUED MAN'S DOUBLE DONATIONS Skegness, Lincolnshire. The Skegness coastguard told the coxswain at 12.16 on the afternoon of Monday the 9th September, 1963, that a dinghy with two people on board had capsized off Jackson's Corner....
Albatross
Margate, Kent.—At 6.35 on the even- ing of the 9th of July, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was ashore on the north-west corner | of Margate sands and that she had a 1 heavy list to port. At 6.43 the life- : boat North...
The S.S. Salmoor and a Ship's Boat
STEAMSHIP ASHORE At 2 a.m. the following day the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have come ashore on the corner of the breakwater. The vessel, the s.s. Salmoor, was awaiting help from the local tug but at...