LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lily
The No. 2 Life- boat, British Workman, left this station on the 24th October in stormy weather, and boarded the Lily, a barque laden with timber, which was stranded on the Has- borongh Sands; and, finding her to be deserted, took possession,...
Aden, of Liverpool
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
Clupeidae
On the 25th March during foggy weather the fishing- boat Clupeidae, of Lowestoft, grounded on a flat off Kirkley Beach. The Life- j boat was launched to her assistance, ! and when a tug came upon the scene, : conveyed a hawser to...
New Ways of Raising Money
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
Category: Donations
£30,000 Plus Present
The Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund continues to maintain its splendid record for the R.N.L.I., and in 1970 for the first time raised over £30,000. In 1970 the Post Office, Inland Revenue, Ministry of Public Buildings and...
Category: Donations
None (4)
PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At i p.m. on 19th December, 1965, the local doctor asked for a woman patient to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford^ on temporary duty at the station, set out at i .45 in a light...
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum:
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum: forty-five sub-aqua diving pirates from Swindon took the plunge in style. They swam three and a half miles along the Thames, raising over £450 for the Institution.
The divers kept their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary Taylor of Padstow
Mary Taylor of Padstow is a prolific fund raiser. During the financial year ending September 1985 she raised a magnificent £1,250—all the more remarkable when you find out that she makes all the items she sells herself. Throughout the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Stewart
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs