LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
When the Wind Blows Up In Douglas Bay: Monas Queen Car Ferry from Liverpool Ploughing In Through This Year's January Gales Photograph By Courtesy of W S B
When the wind blows up in Douglas Bay: Monas Queen, car ferry from Liverpool, ploughing in through this year's January gales. . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W, S. Basnett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
Category: Articles
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
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The S.S. Wirral Bank
Margate, Kent. — On the 22nd of March, 1951, the motor vessel Teal wirelessed that she was standing by the S.S. Wirral Bank, of London, in distress fifty-two miles north-east of North Foreland, with a crew of nine.
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The Cooperative Bank
The COOPERATIVE BANK Still our lowest loan rate ever amount from £1,000 to £15.000 iey is paid straight into your account - with the option of same day transfer* irrangement fees or security ayment Protection Insurance is available...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
We're not asking you to risk your life in Force 9 gales. Or to be on call, day and night. Or even to devote time to training. We are asking for something equally important, though: put pen to paper, below, and take out a Lifeboats...
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Terra Nova, Girl Ann
Kirkcudbright - At 5 p.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was reported that a boat hadgone ashore and broken up on the north side of Ross Bay. It was thought that the casualty might be the local motor fishing vessel Girl Ann which was out fishing at...
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
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