LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI's 80th lifeboat lottery drawn on 31 January raised a incredible £212,000 from tickets sales - the previous highest total was last year's Summer lottery raising £182,000.

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Several of the fishing-boats belonging to Bally- cotton, when at sea, were overtaken by the storm of the llth-12th January.

The majority of them reached safety, but the Winefred, having lost her sails, drifted into...

THE INGENIOUS NON-ELECTRIC ORIGINAL SWEEPS UP DIRT. PET HAIRS, THREADS. GRASS.

CRUMBS. ASHES. EVEN GLASS...WITH EASE! o ordinary sweeper can compete with the super-light Hok . The world's undisputed No. I floor cleaner....

On the 20th February a large schooner was observed making for Liverpool, and she came to anchor about five miles off St.

Anne's. As there was a strong gale blowing from the north-west and a very heavy sea running, a...

TWO SURVIVORS FROM CATAMARAN LANDED Dungeness, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized and that two people were in the water off Greatstone. The...

Whitby, Yorkshire On the 13th January the Whitby motor fishing vessel Provider went to Bridlington for repairs to her capstan. Nothing was heard of her all day and, as the sea was making, enquiries were madeat 9.30 P.M. It was learnt that...

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