LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Earl Russell, K.G., on Sailors' Orphans
AT the opening, on the 29th July last, of the new Asylum at Snaresbrook for Merchant Seamen's Orphans, EARL RUSSELL, K.G., H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made some appropriate remarks on the occasion.
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Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J. Graham with a cheque for £3,250.
Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham with a cheque for £3,250. The cheque was a percentage of profits made from the sale of Filofax personal organisers made from... - View image in PDF
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Income and Expenditure.—1st April, 1854, to 31st March, 1855
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Income and Expenditure.—1st April, 1853, to 31st March, 1854
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A Lifeboat Princess: Seven-Year-Old Alison West Sold 38500 Penny Tickets to Win the Title In a Competition Organised By Seaton and Beer Branch Eight Girls Took
. . . and a lifeboat princess: seven-year-old Alison West sold 38,500 penny tickets to win the title in a competition organised by Seaton and Beer branch. Eight girls took part and achieved an amazing £568. The honorary secretary's... - View image in PDF
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Fig 4:
Fig 4: Coxswain's instrument console in place at forward end of wheelhouse ready to receive steering wheel and instruments (left) and radar display unit (right). Seats for coxswain and navigator will be fitted aft of the console in the... - View image in PDF
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November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the...
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The Harbour Launch Pen-Cw
PROPELLER PROBLEM At 1.40 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the harbour authorities told the honorary secretary that the harbour launch Pen-Cw had fouled her propeller on a wire rope outside the north breakwater and was drifting on to rocks. In a...
Ava
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ the coastguard telephoned to say ft German tanker had reported a small vessel drifting near the East Shoebury buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Medal for Second Coxswain. Four Rescued from Yacht
THE second coxswain of the Appledore life-boat, John Richard Bowden, who took command of the Appledore lifeboat in the temporary absence of the regular coxswain, Sidney Cann, on nth September, 1964, has been awarded the bronze medal for...
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