LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE seventh Christmas party, given by the staff of the Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 20th December at the Bromley Public Hall.
Four days before this a tea...
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Hod o' the Wind
SLOOP AGROUND Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Wells, Norfolk. At 10.40 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the Skegness honorary secretary that the sloop Hod o' the Wind was overdue on passage from Boston Ham to Gibralter Point...
The Sailing Barge Veravia
FEBRUARY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 1.40 A.M. a barge was reported by the coastguard to be in distress off Seaford and burning red flares. A very strong southerly wind was blowing, with heavy seas, fog and blizzards of snow. At 2.25 A.M....
Notes of the Quarter
IN HIS SPEECH to the governors of the Institution at the annual general meeting held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 12, the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the RNLI, reported that 1980 had been a year of great achievement for the RNLI, with...
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The Editor Retires
FOR the first time in thirty-three years The Life-boat is appearing under a new editor. Mr. Charles Vince, the former editor, retired from the service of the Institution on the 1st of July, 1953.
His appointment as editor...
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Notes of the Quarter
HM COASTGUARD are to move their headquarters from London to Poole following the move already made by the RNLI. A new central search and rescue information room will be established at the new Coastguard headquarters. These moves were...
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The Deputy Secretary
We have pleasure in announcing, for the information of Honorary Secretaries and other Life-boat workers, that the Deputy Secretary of the Institution, Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., who is on the Reserve of Regular Officers, has...
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Pushed to the Limit
Pictured: Back l-r Paul Spratt, Matthew Crow and Stewart Olley, the crew of the Vic and BHtie Whiften. Front l-r Launcher Matthew Fosset with the crew of the Ethel Royal, Michael Whistler and Tony Bonham. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs