LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dragonfly
Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...
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FOOD TO A SNOW-BOUND TOWN St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—Bv the 8th of March, 1947, the roads to St.
David's had been impassable for three days owing to heavy falls of snow, and food was getting short there. A...
Coxswain Jesse L. Salmon, Clacton-On-Sea
Coxswain Jesse L. Salmon, who died on 13th January, 1938, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat for just over a year, second coxswain for over fifteen years, and coxswain for...
Category: Obituaries
Classifieds
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Monitor UV temperature, wind, rain, barametric pressure, humidity and more. Quick-view icons...
Category: Advertisement
Rolf Jarl
LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer...
Contents
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
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Notes of the Quarter 3 Lifeboat Services 5 XT JX Lifeboat Open Days 1984,Poole 12 487 Forest Row Lifeboat Choir 12 The naming at Cowes of RNLB Sir Max Aitken II 13 Chairman- a Safe— art 1- caPsizing and righting, by James Paffett, RCNC...
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Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
Category: Articles
Fundraising
A light in the darkness As announced in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, the RNLI ran an advertisement on selected cable and satellite TV channels during April.
Filmed as if from the perspective of a casualty...
Category: Articles
Molin
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.25 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Molin, anchored in St. Ives Bay, was making distress signals. At 5.50 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...