LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dedicating the Life-Boat
The Ceremony at Clogher Head (See page 150). - View image in PDF
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The Sailing Boat Kestrel
Margate, Kent.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had capsized half a mile north of Reculver Tower. At 3.47 the life- boat North Foreland, Civil Service No.
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Right the Timed Competition
Right. The timed competition to dress in lifeboatmen's clothing attracted the youngsters. - View image in PDF
As a finale the senior staff of the Institution took part in a hotly contested, and frequently sabotaged, play-off1. - View image in PDF
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Below: the Lifeboat Crew
Below: The lifeboat crew prepares for filming. - View image in PDF
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The Tone Vale Lodge,
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all... - View image in PDF
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The Sailing Ship Ardencraig
The sailing ship Ardencraig, of Glasgow, foundered off Scilly during the afternoon of 8th January. Distress signals were heard from the Bishop Light-house, and the St.
Agnes Life-boat, Charles Deere James, and St....
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Matthew Lethbridge, of St.
Mary's, in the Scilly Isles. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 32 years. He served as second coxswain from 1920 to 1925, and since 1925...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Varne Lightvessel
Dover, Kent - On 2nd December, 1966, the Dover life-boat Southern Africarescued seven men from the Varne lightvessel.
A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to the coxswain and crew, appears on...
Left - the Flower Bed,
Left - this flower bed, in the shape of an Atlantic lifeboat, was created on a roundabout in Sheerness. The three dimensional display was painstakingly created by inmates of Standford Hill and E/mey prisons for the local ladies guild.... - View image in PDF
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