LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Last Day Out
On 28th August, which was Mechanic William F. Mann's last day with the Exmouth life-boat after 18 years, he was called out when the inshore inflatable craft Fundraiser, taking part in the Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race, was not checked off at...
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A Happy 'Lifeboat' Crew! May Lands Infants' Class 6 (4% to Five Years) Adopted the Rnli As Their Project for a Term They Organised a Raffle a Fair a Sponsored Walk Roun
A happy 'lifeboat' crew! May lands Infants' class 6 (4% to five years) adopted the RNLI as their project for a term. They organised a raffle, a fair, a sponsored walk round the playground and even composed a song. £160 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
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Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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Sir Winston Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
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Every Christmas and Easter for Ten Years Southport Mummers Group (With St.George the King of Egypt Beelzebub and All the Others) Has Toured the Hostelries of So
Every Christmas and Easter for ten years Southport Mummers Group (with St George, the King of Egypt, Beelzebub and all the others) has toured the hostelries of South Lancashire with its ancient traditional plays to collect money for the... - View image in PDF
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Presentation By Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving a Vice-President of the Institution to Littlestoneon- Seu Ilb Crew of a Telescope Paid for By the Romney Marsh Ladies'
Presentation by Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, a vice-president of the Institution, to Littlestoneon- Seu ILB crew of a telescope paid for by the Romney Marsh ladies' darts league (see right). The league cup for 1977/78 was won by the... - View image in PDF
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The Loss of the "Anglo-Saxon."
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...
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On the Very Hot Sunny Day of June 6 Mrs Irene Carrington Wife of the President of the St.Ives Huntingdonshire Rotary Club Named the New D Class Ilb for Wells Station
On the very hot, sunny day of June 6, Mrs Irene Carrington, wife of the president of the St Ives, Huntingdonshire, Rotary Club, named the new D class ILB for Wells station Spirit of Rotary, pouring champagne over her bows. The St Ives branch... - View image in PDF
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Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives 100 years ago The winter 1906 edition of the Journal revealed how John Owston, Coxswain of the Scarborough lifeboat, met King Edward VII after being asked by Lord Londesborough to assist a...
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