LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing

What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...

The 2014 edition of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Handbook, a comprehensive guide to the RNLI fleet past and present, is now available. Get your copy direct from the Society, priced at £6.50.

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A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..

MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..

AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.

wind. The motor...

THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 20th of March, 1953, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.

H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent...

In London in December, 1967, Lars Amundsen, the sole remaining male relative of the celebrated South Pole explorer, Roald Amundsen, sold his famous classic collection of British Empire stamps in order to raise funds to pay for a second...

SCARCELY had the British public had time to fully realize the national loss by the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus, as narrated in the foregoing pages—scarcely were they made aware that a splendid man-of-war steamer, with her perfect equipment, and...