LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Operation Lifeboat: All Over the Country Scouts Have Been at Work—180 Greenock District Scouts Raised £250 By a Sponsored Woodcut
'Operation Lifeboat': all over the country Scouts have been at work—180 Greenock District Scouts raised £250 by a sponsored woodcut.. - View image in PDF
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Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
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Peter Jones China
THE ROYAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! The 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Accession to the Throne.
LIMITED EDITION 500 SIX MAGNIFICENT COMMEMORATIVE PIECES TO HONOUR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH ll ...
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The Hurricane at Calcutta
DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
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Muriel I
Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.36 in the morning of the 16th of October, 1949, the coastguard reported a motor launch signalling for help off the harbour wall.
At 6.5 the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched in a...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
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Sunday May 26 1974: North Berwick Ilb Blue Peter Iii Took Medical Assistance to a Boy Who Had Fallen Over the Cliff In a Bay Which Could Only Be Reached from Seaward T
Sunday, May 26, 1974: North Berwick ILB Blue Peter III took medical assistance to a boy who had fallen over the cliff in a bay which could only be reached from seaward. The boy was found to be too badly injured to be taken off by sea, and... - View image in PDF
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Motor Fishing Vessel No. 799
PROPELLER LOST Walmer, Kent—During the afternoon of the 19th of January, 1948, a motor fishing vessel was drifting in the Downs, and a passing steamer signalled for help for her. At 3.40 the motor life- boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No....
Leslie Crowther (I) and Robert Keegan Were Two of the Guests at the Rnli Gala at Ashburton Park on July 3 Which Was Also Attended By the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress
Leslie Crowther (I.) and Robert Keegan were two of the guests at the RNLI gala at Ashburton Park on July 3, which was also attended by the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Croydon. During the afternoon, opened by Leslie Crowther, more than 5,000... - View image in PDF
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