LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crossword Competition
Competition Crossword COXSWAIN ARTHUR LiDDON of Dover, who has compiled this crossword puzzle, is kindly giving as a prize for the first correct solution to be opened a colour enlargement of Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful...
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Life-Boat Oars
LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight...
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International Boat Show
For eleven days the RNLI stand, on a splendid site, was thronged with old and new friendsAFTER THE TREMENDOUS SUCCESS of the RNLI stand at last year's Boat Show, when there were two lifeboats and two inshore lifeboats on display and the...
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SOUTH/MIDLANDS/EAST: Community news
West Bridgford
YOUNG FUNDRAISER RECOGNISED
Fourteen-year-old Luke Jenkins has been helping to save lives at sea for most of his life. As a baby,
his mother Aisling carried him in a sling on an...
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Ard Carna (1)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Ramsgate's Coat of Arms
THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has...
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Mayflower
MOTOR BOAT BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At about eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress burning flares two miles south-west by west of Newhaven, and the motor life-boat John and...
Bluebell (1)
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, with a crew of seven, had broken down nine miles to the north-east, and the motor...
A Motor Boat
Salcombe, Devon.—At 6.14 on the evening of the 13th of October, 1953.
the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was burning- flares half a mile west of Prawle. At 6.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...