LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) There Were No Open Days In 1994
(Below) There were no open days in 1994 as the new facilities at Cowes were under construction. This was the first opportunity for visitors to see how the Atlantics are built and maintained in their new purpose-built workshops.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
Letters
Seafarers all Kindly accept this 'widow's mite' in aid of your good service. I lost two brothers at sea and three uncles and my great grandfather served under Lord Nelson as a commander.
1 admire the bravery of...
Category: Correspondence
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles
Computers Made Easy
“This is the best book on computing I’ve ever come across – and I’ve read a few! Now I’m getting the most out of my computer!” G Edwards, London “I keep your book right on my desk. Because whenever I’ve got a problem with using my computer –...
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Knockdown from Page 86
from page 86 in the boat, that is the main thing. To get them back out of the water is the problem. If you keep them in the boat you will not have to pick men out of the water in seas that are still liable to capsize you. The crew should be...
Category: Articles
Takings Up at Downside's Souvenir Shop
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
Category: Photographs
One Armed Bend It: Superfit Ian Mckenty (I) and Andy
One armed bend it: superfit Ian McKenty (I) and Andy (r) raised themselves 1,050 times and £140 in cash in 30 minutes by doing one armed press-ups. This excruciating exercise took place in The Ale House, Bath, and was organised by Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
There Seemed to Be No End to the Ideas Devised for 'Operation Lifeboat' the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' Project to Raise £100000 to Pay for An Offshore Lifeboat (Top Left)
There seemed to be no end to the ideas devised for 'Operation Lifeboat', the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' project to raise H00,000 to pay for an offshore lifeboat. (Top left) Bristol South West District Cubs collected... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs