LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
2d. a Week
A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (86)
MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
An Aeroplane (62)
AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.
wind. The motor...
An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
People and Places
Lifeboatmen pick a winner The 81st RNLI lifeboat lottery was drawn by lifeboat crew members on 30 April at the RNLI depot in Poole. The draw raised over €197,000 and first name out of the drum was Mr C Chestnutt from Worcestershire, who won...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (56)
DECEMBER 22ND. - ALDEBURGH, SUFPOLK.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £21 6s. 6d..
South Coast Rescue Boat
THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.
Yarmouth's new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Commemorative plates
Commemorative plate, being held by Alice Wright, chief clerk. North West District office, is one of an edition limited to 250 being sold on behalf of the Lord Mayor of Manchester's lifeboat appeal to fund a Rother lifeboat to be named... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboats: (Below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon Who Raised the Money to Provide the New D Class Ilb at St.Abbs Were Honoured Guests at Her Handing Over Cere
Inshore lifeboats: (below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon, who raised the money to provide the new D class ILB at St Abbs, were honoured guests at her handing over ceremony on June 26, 1976 and are seen here with members of the crew. (Below,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs