LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

UNDER the new House-to-House Collections Act, which came into operation on the 1st March, 1940, all collections made from house to house or door to door are controlled by regulations and licences issued by the police.

The...

The Duchess of Sutherland, who had been the President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, died last August. She has been succeeded as President by Lady Louis Mountbattcn, who has been a vice-president of the guild since 1926..<...

SOME time since a system of securing the buoyancy of fishing-cobles by means of air cases, so fitted as not to impede the fishermen when following their calling, yet, at the same time, to render the cobles unsinkable, was introduced by the...

LOWESTOFT.—On the evening of the 19th March, at about 8 o'clock, the schooner J%fcs, of Nyborg, Denmark, bound from Newcastle to Kgueira, with a cargo of coal, while riding ia the roads began to drive, aad at 9 o'clock, the coxswain...

Howth, Co. Dublin - At 6.35 p.m. on 30th April, 1966, the Garda informed the motor mechanic that two boys were stranded at the foot of the cliff at Castena Bay. The fire brigade had been unable to reach them. In the absence of the honorary...

Relief fleet D class A new D class lifeboat provided by the patrons of the Fox & Hounds public house in Surbiton was handed over to the RNLI in Poole on 4 February 1989.

Some of the patrons were present when Mr Vic...

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SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....