LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plymouth's Round House After
Plymouth's Round House presented unique problems when it was convened into the RNLI's base in Plymouth in 1993. The listed building dates from the early 19th century and the before-and-after photographs show how the building has been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrow to Poole: Log By Alec Moore Assistant Mechanic of Barrow Lifeboat Station
SEPTEMBER 1982 Extracts from the log of Acting Motor Mechanic ALEC MOORE of the delivery trip of the 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Herbert Leigh at the end of her time as a station boat; she is now in the relief fleet. For the voyage the other...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By BARBARA BULL (14J), Leesland Girls' School, Gosport, Hants.
The Qualities that make THE Vikings of old were children of the sea, loving the waves they fought and conquered, but as cruel as the surging waters they...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED ALMOST AFLOAT...
or close waterfront, Fowey Harbour, South Cornwall. Comfortable holiday cottages, Polruan, sleep 2/8. Superb views, exceptionally well-equipped, mooring facilities. £50/S3OO...
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Bridgnorth Branch
David James is a young member of the Bridgnorth branch committee. He built this lifeboathouse out of Lego bricks and asked people to guess how may bricks were used. The most accurate guess was awarded with a Lego set, donated by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gotcha!
The things some people do to raise money for the lifeboats! Beryl Cole from Exmouth secretly sent in this picture of her husband, Brian. The couple were at an outside event in Exeter and Brian had his face painted to raise some cash for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed honor- ary life-governors of the Institution and pre- sented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...
Category: Awards
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.
One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...
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Taormina, of Oslo
ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...
The Beachmen's "Shod."
HALF-A-MILE from the village, close to the verge of a cliff more remarkable for its fossiliferous deposits than for height, a little wooden hut, built of wreck- timber and roofed with red tiles, stands exposed to the full fury of every storm...
Category: Articles