LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fund Raisers
The Grace Darling appeal Arabella and Martha Dancy, pupils at Putney High School, Lytton House, help to organise and took part in a Great Teddy Bear Contest in order to raise money for the appeal. The school hall was filled with 200 teddy...
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Books for Review
Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).
He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...
Category: Articles
Assessment of Rates on Life-Boathouses
AT the report stage and third reading of the Rating and Valuation (Miscel- laneous Provisions) Bill in the House of Lords on the 21st of July, 1955, Earl Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Insti- tution, moved, after clause 7, to insert the...
Category: Articles
Our Lights and Lighthouses
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
What's the cover story? The cover of the Spring issue of The Lifeboat certainly sparked some lively correspondence last quarter. Some of you thought it was a refreshing change, others weren't so keen.
Here follows...
Category: Correspondence
Franklin Mint Limited
The fastest clipper ship, of her day is ready to take you on the adventure of a lifetime! CUTTY SARK The Qolden Age of Sail NAUTICAL WATCH Selectively plated with 22 carat gold.
Featuring a working compass set into the...
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The Royal Naval College Greenwich Was the Splendid Setting for a Cheese and Wine Evening Held Last November the 400 Guests Sampled the Delights of Dutch Che
The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was the splendid setting for a cheese and wine evening, held last November. The 400 guests sampled the delights of Dutch cheese, kindly provided by the Dutch Dairy Bureau; Martell donated a gross of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
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