LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April Pranksters
The proprietor and regulars of the Coalbrookdale Inn in Shropshire formed a group to undertake fundraising events on 1 April each year - these usually involve a weird and surreal April Fool's Day prank.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat House, Wembley
THE Institution took advantage of the fortunate coincidence that the British Empire Exhibition has been held in its Centenary Year, to erect its own house in the. Exhibition grounds. Life-boat House, Wembley, was very appro- priately placed...
Category: Articles
The Women of Newbiggin
Award of the Thanks of the institution Inscribed on Vellum.
ON the morning of January 26th, the whole of the Newbiggin fishing fleet had gone out in fine weather, but while they were at sea a sudden gale sprang up. By...
Category: Awards
Princess Wilhelmina
Tempes- tuous weather was experienced on the north-east coast during the last days of September, and the Swedish barque Princess Wilhelmina of Halmstad, laden with firewood from Kemi to Dundee, became embayed off St. Andrews. Fail- ing to...
Sincere (1)
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
R. M. Ballantyne's "The Life-Boat."
IT is thirty-two years since R. M.
Ballantyne died, and last year was the centenary of his birth. He was writing for nearly forty years, his first book being published in 1856, and in that time he produced eighty volumes....
Category: Articles
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Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., died suddenly on 3Oth May, 1966, at the age of 53. Professor Pask was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
HIS LIFE AND...
Category: Obituaries
Feature: Train One, Save Many
'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...
Category: Articles
Travelscope
7 DAYS departing: May & June 2007 Sailing from Harwich - No Flying Four ports of call; Bergen, Flam, Gudvangen & Rosendal 6 DAY Itineraries also available from Hull & Rosyth from £349 From dramatic fjord scenery and rolling...
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