LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Lottery Saturday afternoon shoppers jostled with each other for the best view of the 39th lottery draw. The event took place at 3pm on Saturday, October 31 inside the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket, by kind permission of branch...
Category: Articles
Fair Adventure
A LONG SEARCH At 1.42 p.m. on sist October, 1965, the fishing vessel Fair Adventure was reported by the coastguard to have requested an escort as all her navigational aids had ceased to function eight miles east of the Sea Gem oil rig. The...
Welcome
What will you discover this autumn?
The ‘back to school’ feeling is a receding memory for many of us, but I still find autumn brings a clean slate and the instinct to try something new. This issue, we meet volunteers who...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing
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Category: Advertisement
The Life of Henry Blogg
IN his Henry Blogg of Cromer (Harrap I5/-), Mr. Cyril Jolly has undertaken with considerable success the important task of writing the biography of the life-boat coxswain who received the most medals for gallantry and won the greatest...
Category: Articles
A Universal Code of Instructions for the Management of the Mortar and Rocket Life Apparatus
DURING the last few years the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have had many opportunities for observing the great need that existed for the adoption of a uniform system of management of the mortar and rocket apparatus, and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
West Kilbride and Seamill Branch
How to keep dry and keep raising money at Scottish open air events.
West Kilbride and Seamill branch use a standard canvas extension attached to a caravanette when they go out to sell souvenirs. The branch is only three... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.—In Con- sequence of a shipwreck having occurred here, with, loss of life, in September 1885, the local residents made application to the Institution to form a Life-boat esta- blishment at this port, and as a large...
Category: Articles
The Latest 52Ft Arun Lifeboat
. . . the technical development of new lifeboats: (right) the latest 52ft Arun lifeboat, Duchess of Kent, the gift of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons of England and destined for the relief fleet. The CRp-hul/ed Arun is the largest and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs