LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Children's Collection at Alnmouth
Lady Elizabeth Percy receiving their purses from Miss Darea Milburn and Lord Geoffrey Percy. On the right of Lord Geoffrey Percy is the Duchess of Northumberland. (See page opposite.). - View image in PDF
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Finance In 1940: Expenditure.
Expenditure was lower in 1940 because, owing to essential war work in the shipbuilding yards, the building of life-boats had to be greatly curtailed, and only half as much was spent under this heading as in the previous year. In spite of...
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High Seas
More bird's eye views of RNLI lifeboat stations.Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices: Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in -£27.03....
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Constance
On the night of the 4th December the steamer Con- stance, of Leith, ran ashore on the north side of the entrance to the River Southesk. She was bound, with a crew of five and a cargo of coal, from Methil to Montrose. Scurdyness lighthouse...
Annie Christian
WATCHET, SOMERSETSHIRE. — In a strong N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 16th January, the ketch Annie Christian, of Liverpool, got into difficulties off Watchet while bound from Ely with a cargo of coal. The vessel had been at anchor,...
Ability
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel east of Milford Docks was drag- ging her anchors and sounding distress signals on her siren. At 3.50 the life- boat Elizabeth...
Youngarth
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 10.10 P.M. on the 18th December, 1938, the coastguard reported distress signals in the Solent, off Yarmouth. A moderate east gale Avas blowing, with a very rough sea, and the weather was very cold. The motor...
Listings
Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...
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Daisy and Young Kenneth
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland. — At midday on the 4th February there was a very heavy sea on the bar, and, as fishing boats could be seen making for harbour, the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched at 12.40 P.M., in case her help was...
Joan Mary at Mablethorpe
Mablethorpe has received a new Atlantic 75 provided for by the legacy of the late Miss Evelyn Selina Wallace, of Newton Abbot, Devon. Miss Wallace funded the new lifeboat and provided a substantial amount towards the cost of the new station.... - View image in PDF
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