LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Half-Pence Scheme
The half-pence scheme My grandad and nan have been saving half-pennies for the lifeboat service for 28 years. Of course they receive a receipt for what they hand in but my brother Paul and I feel sure they would love to see a few words of...
Category: Correspondence
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Torbay, Devon - At 12.20 a.m. on I4th May, 1967, it was reported that a car had been seen to run over the headland close to the look-out. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings, with the small boarding boat in tow, at...
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Life-boat 70-001 - At 6.25 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, three boys were reported stranded on some rocks north of Hartland quay. The 7O-foot life-boat Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) proceeded at 6.30 in a south...
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JUNE 14TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A light, thought to be a distress signal, had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £7 4s. 9d..
Lifeboat On Show For 100 Years
Lifeboat on show for 100 years Redcar’s Zetland museum, the home of the world’s oldest surviving lifeboat, celebrated its centenary on 1 May.
The Zetland lifeboat arrived at Redcar in 1802, predating the foundation of the...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Bruno backs the lifeboats Harwich lifeboatmen had a very special visitor in August, when Frank Bruno came to town promoting the wacky gameshow 'It's a Knockout'. The former heavyweight boxing champ was backing the RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Nature of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats — all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies., sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1961
1960 £ 197,541 334 42,558 17,618 65 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Howth, Lizard-Cadgwith, Longhope, Penlee, ...
Category: Accounts
The New Eddystone Lighthouse
In former numbers of this journal we published a series of papers on "Lights and Lighthouses," to which an account of this the last of our great outlying light- towers will be an appropriate sequel.
As a preamble...
Category: Articles
List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1904
The late Xr. William Wallis The late Mrs. 31. C. Liqard.
Rlrs. Charles Stephens . .
Amount of WE or Legacy.
Date received.
1894 6,000 - - 1904 1,000 - - 1,000 - - 1,798...
Category: Donations