LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...
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Taking to the Road: (Below Left) Dennis Oates Appeal Secretary of East Ham Branch Has Painted a Lifeboat Scene on His Dodge Van Which He Uses for All Branch Fun
Taking to the road: (Below, left) Dennis Oates, appeal secretary of East Ham branch, has painted a lifeboat scene on his Dodge van, which he uses for all branch functions. (Below, right) Jeffery Dyson, a signaller in Rhyl crew (r), with the... - View image in PDF
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A Hard Worker for the R.N.L.I, at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, Is Mr. B. Ralph (Centre), of Pennyhill Lane, Who Is Seen Collecting With His Wife and Children. He First Became Interested In Life-Boats
A hard worker for the R.N.L.I, at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, is Mr. B. Ralph (centre), of Pennyhill Lane, who is seen collecting with his wife and children.
He first became interested in life-boats after a visit to... - View image in PDF
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New Quay: HANDLES WITH CARE
Two volunteers from New Quay lifeboat station travelled 313 miles to Penlee in Cornwall on 7 November – to present a set of old cast-iron door handles. Mechanic Bernie Davies explains: ‘On reading on Facebook that someone had stolen the old...
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Hazelwood II
INJURED MAN ON ISLAND Poole, Dorset. At 3.16 a.m. on 29th January, 1965 the police informed the honorary secretary that the Warden of Brownsea Island had informed them that a man with head injuries and practically unconscious had landed on...
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N.
(Late Chief Inspector of Life-boats). - View image in PDF
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West Hove County Primary Infants' School Sussex Answered the 'Blue Peter' BBC Television Appeal for Paperbacked Books to Help Provide Replacement Rescue Craft F
by courtesy of Evening Argus', Brighton West Hove County Primary Infants' School, Sussex, answered the 'Blue Peter' B.B.C. television appeal for paperbacked books to help provide replacement rescue craft forthe existing four... - View image in PDF
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Our Financial Position
IN our Annual Report published in May last special attention was drawn to the fact that during the year 1890 the Committee had been compelled to spend as much as 33,354?. 13s. 10d in excess of their ordinary income, and that they had been...
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(Left) Heavy Weather Is Not a Problem
(left) Heavy weather is not a problem for a well prepared yacht with an experienced crew - but being pooped by a sea like this finds any weakness in the vessel, her equipment and crew. Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat was involved in this... - View image in PDF
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A New Type of Life-Boat
Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
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