LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life savings with Yorkshire Building Society
We’re a few months into our Charity of the Year partnership with Yorkshire Building Society – and their fundraising is already making a splash!
The Come Rain or Shine campaign was launched on 27 January – SOS Day....
Category: Articles
Pedalo Power
An eight-hour pedalo trip organised by the Aylsham and District branch, North Norfolk, raised £900 for lifeboats. Members and friends of the branch covered the 25-mile stretch along the River Bure. The sponsored event was supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charities and Charity Law
THERE was a lengthy debate in July ir/thejHouse of Lords on Charities and Charity Law initiated by Lord Beaumont of Whitley. The following are a few excerpts from various speeches which may be useful for guidance and for quotation where...
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JANUARY 4TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A parachute had been reported coming down, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £8 5s..
Lord Mayor of London Sir Peter Vanneck Who Opened the Show Chats to Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson (C) and Mrs Peter Grace Chairman Central London Commit
Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Vanneck, who opened the show, chats to Mrs Charles Hunting Simpson (c.) and Mrs Peter Grace, chairman, Central London Committee. The ladies, manning the souvenir stall, are seen 'modelling' the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services
Letter. Let's Put Out More Flags
• I attended the London District Conference when the present financial problems of the R.N.L.I. were explained to the delegates. Subsequently the excerpt from the article - 'Why put out more flags ?' included in the last issue of THE...
Category: Correspondence
Snuffbox
TWO ON BOARD YACHT At 10.7 p.m. on I3th June, 1964, the coxswain told the coastguard that as a yacht had run aground near St. Helen's Fort and had been firing flares he had decided to launch. At 10.18 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary...
The S.S.. Gwynwood and S.S.Deodata
OCT. 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after four in the afternoon a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S.....
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
Category: Articles