LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Days of Magic
EACH year for the past three years, the Magical Societies throughout the country have held a national day of magic as near to All Halloween as possible and have presented the sums made to a national charity.
In 1948 the...
Category: Donations
(Above) Leeds Appeal Committee Organised a Charity Greyhound Meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6 Various Firms In the City Sponsored the Eight Races to £100 Ea
(Above) Leeds appeal committee organised a charity greyhound meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6. Various firms in the city sponsored the eight races, to £100 each, and a very successful and enjoyable occasion yielded about... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Margate Ladies
In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1...
Category: Donations
Caribbean Queens
Caribbean queens St Agnes ladies guild won top prizes with their Cornish Caribbean display in the local village carnival recently - receiving cups for the best charity group float and the best music and dance.
The carnival... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart: An Aspect of Sea Power
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
Category: Articles
Remuneration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
Category: Articles
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE, N. B.—On the 17th April some of the fishing fleet of Montrose were caught outside the bar of the river in a sudden storm from the S.E. Many boats which were in great peril hove-to outside, unwilling to take the bar. The...
New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
Category: Articles