LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suspension of the Life-Boat Journal.
Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal "The Life-boat", stopped publication after the number for April, 1940. In its place single sheet bulletins will be issued from time to...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Birmingham branch had a busy time last October. In one week an exhibition at the New Street Shopping Centre raised a magnificent £2,700. The branch's annual dinner and dance, held during the same week at the Botanical Gardens, and...
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Helsingoe, of Elsinore
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
The S.S. Yewmount
On 6th December the s.s. Yewmount, of Glasgow, struck some submerged ob- struction off the Longstone Light House, while bound from Methil to Treport, with coal. The master made for the coast and ran her ashore in Alnmouth Bay. Information...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £163 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.
This is their seventeenth annual col- lection and they have now collected* over...
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On 5Th May, 1943, the Wells Life-Boat Took Part In An Interesting Service In Which the R.A.F. for the First Time Dropped An Airborne Life-Boat to a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew Off the East Anglian Coast. Th
On 5th May, 1943, the Wells life-boat took part in an interesting service in which the R.A.F. for the first time dropped an airborne life-boat to a 'ditched' bomber crew off the East Anglian coast. The 'ditched' crew received... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief Fleet’s Frank & Anne Wilkinson
Relief fleet’s Frank & Anne Wilkinson, Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Caudebec
Falmouth, Cornwall. —• About four o'clock in the afternoon of the 2nd ofFebruary, 1950, a message was received that a vessel was dragging and in danger of going on the rocks at Black Rock, in Falmouth Harbour. At 4.15 the...
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
On Saturday Evening August 7 1982 a Joint Event Was Held By Beer and District Branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association
On Saturday evening August 7, 1982, a joint event was held by Beer and District branch and the Axminster Girl Guides Association, which was attended by about 12,000 people and raised about £850 for the lifeboats. There was a camp fire... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs