LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Threepenny Bits for Fifty Years
THE Institution has received a gift of 60 threepenny bits from a lady in Jarrow. She writes that she has been collecting threepenny-bits for 50 years, all of which she has sent to the Institution or put in life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Ceremony
TUESDAY MAY 21, 1985 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING: A.M.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS: P.M.
There was much to please RNLI supporters in what the Institution's chairman, the Duke of Atholl, had to say in his two...
Category: Meetings
Central Appeals Committee
A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...
Category: Committee
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Fastnet Race Storm
DURING THE NIGHT of Monday August 13 and Tuesday August 14 southwesterly storm force winds, veering to west north west and gusting to hurricane force, struck the south-western approaches while the international Fastnet Race fleet of 306...
Category: Articles
Fairway of Deal
Walmer, Kent - At 1.20 p.m. on llth February, 1969, news was received that the motor boat Fairway of Deal, with four anglers on board, had broken down threequarters of a mile south east of the life-boat house.
At 1.32 the...
Seal
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.15 on the night of the 1st of June, 1956. the Orlock coastguard rang up to say that a motor boat was in distress in Don- aghadee Sound. Thelife-boatK.E.C.F., on temporary duty at the station, put out at 9.25 in a...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.
The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...
Category: Meetings
Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER V FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by your local SAIF Independent Funeral Director 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...
Category: Advertisement
Kidderminster Ladies' Guild Has Held a Nearly New Sale for the Last Seven Years and This Year's Shop Open for Two Weeks Brought In £1650; the Guild Officers and Five
Kidderminster ladies' guild has held a nearly new sale for the last seven years, and this year's shop, open for two weeks, brought in £1,650; the guild officers and five members of the committee are seen on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs