LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
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Provider and New Dawn
COBLES ESCORTED Amble, Northumberland. At 12.55 p.m. on I9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two fishing cobles were due back at the harbour and as there was a rough sea asked if the life-boat would escort...
Receipts and Payments—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1957
1956 £ 185,858 286 40,479 9,808 386 42,575 12,631 2,596 3,360 61,162 2,571 58,591 295,408 4,205 731 744 2,571 8,251 12,416 38,444 50,860 50,360 9,315 47,145 1,574 967 1,409 60,410 24,072 4,460 328 28,860 494,149 PAYMENTS LIFE-BOATS :—...
Category: Accounts
Widgeon II
Walmer, Kent. At 8.56 on the even- ing of the 21st of September, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...
New Member of Committee of Management
LORD KILLANIN has been co-opted as a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution. He had extensive journalistic experience before the last war, and during the war he served as an officer of the Queen's Westminsters. He is a...
Category: Committee
Scaldis V
Weymouth, Dorset. At 4.48 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares a mile and a half south-south-east of Portland Bill. At 5.10 the life-boat Frank Spiller...
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William Osborne Ltd
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Complete craft ready for sea or we...
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