LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OWING to the fact that so many schools have been moved on account of the war, it has been regretfully decided not to hold the Duke of Northumberland's Life-boat Essay Competition for Elementary Schools in 1940..

A WOMAN in Essex has written: "Will you please accept the cuttings of my hair and sell it for your funds. I understand real hair is urgently needed." The Institution gratefully accepted the hair, and has sold it for fifteen...

If the RNLI choose the Mermaid...

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COBLE TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Filey, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that ten local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating...

HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.

on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...

In memory of Captain C. C. Lowry, past chairman of Appledore station branch, a glass topped table was made to display lifeboat stamps of the world. The stamps were collected and the table made by staff and inmates of HM Prison, Dartmoor..<... - View image in PDF

Captain John Leworthy of the committee of management receives £18,000 from Andrew Maclean, chief general manager of the Municipal Mutual Insurance Group, the first proceeds from a joint promotion. (Below) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston... - View image in PDF

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