LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 237 International Boat Show 239 T T - I VT TTT It was a Dark and Stormy Night ... by Jilly Cooper 240 Number 450 Lifeboat Stamps 242 A Year of Endeavour 243 48 Hours of Gale 248 Chairman: Lifeboat...
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Your Letters
Worthwhile find Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the...
Category: Correspondence
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom. Montrose Branch
LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
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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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There they are, boy. They were heroes
Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole
Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...
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Golf Competitions for the Life-Boats
IN 1931 an appeal was made to the principal golf clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to hold a competition in aid of the Life-boat Service. The Institution offered to present a silver and enamel Spoon as prize (two Spoons being offered if a...
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STARS IN OUR TIME OF DARKNESS
The First World War is one the darkest chapters in our history, but we will never forget the countless acts of humanity that shone through – including those of RNLI lifeboat crews on the home front
This year, we celebrate...
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Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 275 Lifeboat Services 276 A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court 282 Volume XLIII ._ , 150th Anniversary Celebrations in Scotland 285 Number 451 Coming Events 285 Arun Development 286 Sea Rescue: a...
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
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Save-A-Can for the Lifeboatman
Save-a-can for the lifeboatman. Eight-year old conservationists Paula Kelly and Mark Chapman are among 84 pupils at Gilberdyke school who collected empty tins as part of a fund raising effort for the lifeboat service. The cans went to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs