LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

The proprietor and regulars of the Coalbrookdale Inn in Shropshire formed a group to undertake fundraising events on 1 April each year - these usually involve a weird and surreal April Fool's Day prank.. - View image in PDF

A leading object of this publication being to draw attention to the deplorable loss of life from shipwreck which periodically takes place on our shores, we propose, in our pre- sent Number, to take a brief general review* of the subject, for...

Walmer, Kent.—On the fourth of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No. 2, rescued 30 lives from the Italian steamer Silvia Onorato. The coxswain was awarded the silver medal for gallantry, the motor mechanic the...

MESSES. H. JENKINS, LTD., the photographers, of 2, Pier Terrace, Lowestoft, whose photographs will be well known to readers of The Life-boat, have, for the third year, issued "A Fishing Fleet Calendar." It has fourteen pages, with...

Takings up at Downside's souvenir shop For several years the boys at Downside Lodge, Purley, have supported Purley's Lifeboat Week. They buy from the souvenir shop set up in the school hall each day and this year the gross takings at... - View image in PDF

Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.

They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and last year... - View image in PDF

Jan. 4.—Two men put off in a coastguard boat and rescued the crew of three men of the barge Dewdrop, of Portsmouth, which had foundered in Langston Harbour, Hampshire, in a moderate gale from the S. W. and a rough sea—Reward....