LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Flag days have been beating all records in this 'Year of the Lifeboat'.
Here are just a few results: On London lifeboat day, March 19, £69,355 was collected, nearly £9,000 more than in 1973. For the flag...
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Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
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Annual Report. 1898
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Gross Road, on Saturday, the 12th day of March, 1898, His Grace the DUKE OF LEEDS in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
The Lowestoft Life-Boat Rolling In Heavy Seas at the Entrance to Lowestoft Harbour As She Returns to Port After Escorting a Longshore Boat to Safety on 7th October, 1967
The Lowestoft life-boat rolling in heavy seas at the entrance to Lowestoft harbour as she returns to port after escorting a longshore boat to safety on 7th October, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wasting of the English Coast. (From the Times, 5th October, 1886)
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
Category: Articles
Feature the Royal Charter Tragedy
The first Gold Medal to be awarded after the establishment of the Lifeboat journal was not to a lifeboatman but was for an outstanding act of individual bravery following the wreck of the Royal Charter near Moelfre, in Anglesey, on 26...
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The Centenary of Two Life-Boat Stations. Boulmer, Northumberland; Appledore, Devon
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
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The Duke Coming Ashore from the 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Arun at Barry Dock
The Duke coming ashore from the 52ft Arun lifeboat Arun at Barry Dock. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fund Raisers
A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...
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Elephants and beer goggles
Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …
‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...
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