LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Finance In 1942: Income.
Each year of the war the Institution's income has been higher than ever before. Last year it was £495,775- The money that, for the moment, the Institution is able to put by will be spent, when the war is over, on building the boats...
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Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
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Sam Weller
During a moderate S.S.W. gale on the 27th January a vessel was observed by the Coastguard stranded on the main about two miles north of Palling. The crew and helpers were speedily called, and the Palling No. 1 Life-boat, 5ith West Norfolk...
Criani and Wilhelimina
At 2.8 a.m. on 21st September, 1969, it was learnt that flares had been sighted off Seaford. At 2.28 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat came up with the motor boat Tuna with one man...
Remagio
JUNE 9TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a trawler was ashore half a mile north of Bamburgh Castle, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.44 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, a sailing dinghy was reported to have capsized off Majuba.
The IRB was launched immediately in a south-westerly breeze and calm sea. She found the dinghy with one person...
A Sailing Dinghy
Mudeford, Hampshire-At 1.45 p.m.
on zist April, 1966, a visitor to Mudeford informed a member of the IRB crew that a sailing dinghy had capsized about one mile east of the harbour entrance. The IRB was immediately launched...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, after completing an engine trial, went to meet four local fishing vessels, which were returning to harbour in a strong east-south-easterly...
None (4)
Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.22 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating three hundred yards north- north-east of Trevose lighthouse. No other boat being...
H.M.S. Mersey
Blackpool, Lancashire. At 9.15 a.m.
on I4th June, 1964, the life-boat Maria Noble launched in a strong north-westerly breeze and rough sea to return the captain and other officers to H.M.S. Mersey, which was i| miles off...