LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
Richard B Wigfull & Son Ltd
PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUNTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.
A very fine example of English...
Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
A total of 400 RNLI lottery tickets sold by one person is a record set by Stuart Maggs of Hythe branch. Well done Mr Maggs—but are there any challengers? How about individual flag day collectors? Roger Cope, a member of Birmingham branch...
Category: Donations
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
A Steamer (22)
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
An Aeroplane (25)
JULY 26TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £13 l6s..
Rachel and Tim Clifford,
Rachel and Tim Clifford, from just outside Killarney in the Republic of Ireland, decorated their house and garden with over 20,000 lights for Christmas 2000, raising a staggering f 7,000 for the RNLI.
The couple's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golf Competitions for the Life-Boats
IN 1931 an appeal was made to the principal golf clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to hold a competition in aid of the Life-boat Service. The Institution offered to present a silver and enamel Spoon as prize (two Spoons being offered if a...
Category: Articles
The Late Captain G. W. Manby, F.R.S.
THIS benevolent and ingenious gentleman has been gathered to his fathers, full of years and honours, his decease having occurred on the 18th November last, at his residence Southdown, near Great Yarmouth.
His well-known...
Category: Obituaries