LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—At 5.32 in the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had radioed through the North Foreland Station that Mid-Barrow Lightship had reported a motor launch ashore near No. 11 Buoy. The life...

YACHT RESCUED Ramsgate, Kent. At 8.45 a.m. on 23rd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed approximately half a mile west from Margate Hook Beacon. A helicopter was sent to investigate...

AUGUST 1988: Mrs D.N. King, president of the Knowle and Dorridge Ladies' Guild from 1983 to 1985. She was chairman of the guild from 1968 to 1982 and was awarded a silver badge in 1977..

LAST year the Institution presented Vellums to seventeen Life-boat Stations which had been in existence for a century and over. Up to the end of July this year seven more Stations received the same honour,* and since then Vellums have been...

The Duke of Kent, President of the R.N.L.I., speaking at the Mermaid Ball dinner at the Dorchester Hotel, London, in December, when a cheque was presented for over £51,000 by the Royal British Legion for the Solent class life-boat The... - View image in PDF

Dur- ing a moderate W.N.W. gale with a heavy sea and rain, at about 9.30 P.M.

on 29th October, information was re- ceived that the open motor fishing boat Blue Sell, of Barrow, which had been fishing off Duddon Estuary, had...

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YACHTS OLD SAILING SHIPS LIFEBOATS BARQUES SCHOONERS STEAMSHIPS TRAWLERS & TUGS ETC. THAMES BARGES Individually commissioned with certificate ofA.fr...

Concerted efforts Worcester guild has a particular talent for turning musical notes into pound notes. In May 1984 a concert given by Scottish baritone, Peter Morrison, in conjunction with the Hereford Police Choir, raised £362.25, while...