LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Task of the Vikings
W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....
Category: Articles
Your shout
Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.
Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
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Press On K. 263
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
ANNUAL Meeting of the London members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Life-boat Day organizers, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
Mary Tatham
From the coast near this i port, on the 2ud January, by the first light 1 of breaking day, the masts of a vessel were | observed looming faintly through the haze of a S.W. storm. It was presently ascer- tained that the vessel herself...
News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
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The Fund Raisers
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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Past and Present
75 Years Ago The following article appeared in the August, 1911, issue of THE LIFEBOAT:VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
FOK the second time within two years Newiniay has been fortunate enough to receive a...
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Life-Boat Services In 1908
Lives saved.
jEron B'ille, schooner, of Aber- ystwith—saved vessel and.... 3 Also landed 7.
Agenoria, schooner, of Chester— stood by vessel.
Albert, schooner, of Boston—...
Category: Services
Cook's Tour Ends!
After 26 years as landlord of the Captain Cook pub in Teesmouth, Ronnie Rees (left) is retiring and to commemorate his fundraising efforts Teesmouth lifeboat station presented Ronnie with a plaque.
Harry Aspland, shore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs