LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Institution has received an anony- mous parcel containing twenty-nine gold sovereigns and twenty-four half- sovereigns, packed in cotton wool, many of them with Queen Victoria's head"..

THE following report, sent in by the honorary secretary of an inshore rescue boat station, is just another example of failing to face up to the fact that the sea is unpredictable.

Apparently two men went out in a homemade...

HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...

Coxswain Desmond Cox of Appledore gives an unconvincing display of culinary know-how in the bow of the station's Atlantic 21. It was all part of the ladies' guild's successful attempt to draw attention to their new cookery book... - View image in PDF

GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPRO THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not the burden of funeral costs,...

The presentation of a cheque for £949.70 was the result of a sponsored run from RAF Sciimpton in Lincolnshire to Brighton, made by personnel from the RAF Base. The journey, made over two days last June, was run in relays of three.... - View image in PDF

CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches of...

EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....