LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 25th May. The amount raised was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936.
Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
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Classifieds
GIFTS RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £6.00' The story of the RNU with rescue reconstructions Launch £6.00* For older children and adults Lifeboats £6.00" For younger children Building support for lifeboats £8.00*...
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Fokke de Jong Sr.
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 11.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light northerly breeze and in a slight swell. A ship had been reported aground on the east side of Call. It was one hour after...
An Aeroplane (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St. Helier, Jersey.—2nd February, 1938. A report had been received that a French military aeroplane had been forced down sea, but later it was learned that the plane was safe. The St. Peter Port motor life-boat...
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
PRESENTATION of awards for Greater London and the South-east of England in the Life-boat Essay Competition, by Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Mayor of Westminster presiding. (See full report in last issue of The...
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The Naval Tug Warden
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 11.26 on the morning of the 5th of February.
1955, the coastguard telephoned that the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, had asked if the life-boat would land three injured men from the naval...
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1938
Mrs. JANE M. PEPPER, honorary secretary, Mansfield branch.
Mr. GEOROE PEARCEY, worker, Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch.
Mrs. ROSABEL STEVENS, worker, Ladies' Life-boat Guild,...
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‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
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Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1857
Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
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