LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
GIVE IT A GO: FAMILY TREE
King, smuggler, lifeboat hero – what do you know about your ancestors?
We’ve enlisted genealogist Laura Berry to give you seven easy ways to discover your family history
Imagine you’re a detective, with clues...
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A Gallant Girl and Four Gallant Boys
ONE of the features of the many boating accidents in the summer of 1937 was the gallantry of boys and girls. The Institution awarded five inscribed wrist-watches, to a girl and four boys for saving, or attempting to save, life. Their ages...
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TOWN & COUNTRY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp y the finest ™ Driveways money can buy , V Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.
Beneath the surface is a unique fibre...
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Dispatches
A day to remember The RNLI's Annual Presentation of Awards ceremony is an uplifting experience More than 1,000 supporters, volunteers, staff and, most importantly, awardees attended this year's event on Thursday 18 May at the...
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Life-Saving on the Shannon
THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
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Figureheads Were a Feature of This Fishermen's Hut (Left) Which Once Stood Near the Harbour Mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. the Figureheads Shown Below Portray (Left to Right) William Iv, the Sailor
Figureheads were a feature of this fishermen's hut (left) which once stood near the harbour mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. The figureheads shown below portray (left to right) William IV, the Sailor King1; a woman who once adorned the bow... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sutton-On-Sea and Trusthorpe Guild
Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe guild have had their fund raising prowess recognised by the BBC. David Hamilton's music show on Radio 2 gives a 'Top Team Award' and chose these ladies for their record sum raised in 1982, which was... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENZANCE.—The Life-boat stationed some years since at Penzance has been replaced by a new one provided by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
The new boat is 36 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and rows 12 oars double - banked....
Category: Articles
Pauline Morris Chairman of Newquay Ladies' Guild Cornwall and Her Husband Mr M H Morris Station Honorary Secretary Run a Dance Club In Aid of the Rnli Which
Pauline Morris, chairman of Newquay ladies' guild, Cornwall, and her husband, Mr M. H. Morris, station honorary secretary, run a dance club in aid of the RNLI which meets at the WI Hall every Saturday evening. A small charge is made for... - View image in PDF
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Raine II
SAILS LOST At 1.8 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, a yacht, two and a half miles east of Ramsgate, had her sails carried away and was unable to make harbour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 1.15 in a gale force west south...