LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Auld Reekie
This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees....
Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
Category: Articles
Key-Side Concert
Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.
(Photos courtesy Devon and Cornwall Press Agency (inset) and A. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXX. HUNSTANTON.—Licensed Victualler, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
A distinction should be made between old and new Hunstanton; the latter, commonly known by the name of Hunstanton St. Edmunds, is situate about a mile south...
Category: Articles
Mrs Joy Phillips,
NOVEMBER 1993 Mrs Joy Phillips, founder member of Worcester ladies' guild. She was chairman from 1965-1981 and then vice chairman until 1991. Mrs Phillips was awarded a Silver badge in 1975..
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.20 P.M.
* on the 14th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the Shambles Lightship had fired guns and rockets.
A strong E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. At 10...
Rinovia
Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1932
As in previous years, the Institution is issuing this autumn a Life-boat Calendar for next year. We feel that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service before the public every day of the year, and we hope that...
Category: Advertisement
R E Prior & Co
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