LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Making a Museum Support the Living
MY HUSBAND AND I took over as joint secretaries of the Barmouth R.N.L.I, branch and guild in 1967. Our hard-working predecessors had received wonderful support in their fund-raising efforts from both residents and visitors. With rapidly...
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The S.S. Firethorn
STEAMER ABANDONED IN HEAVY SEA Barrow, Lancashire.—At 10.35 on the night of January llth, 1947, informa- tion was received, through the Hoylake coastguard, from the Morecambe Bay Light-vessel, that a vessel was in distress, and the motor...
The Launch of the Bridlington Lifeboat on 26th February, 1923
The Launch of the Bridlington Lifeboat On 26th February 1923. - View image in PDF
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The Sailing Barge Veravia
FEBRUARY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 1.40 A.M. a barge was reported by the coastguard to be in distress off Seaford and burning red flares. A very strong southerly wind was blowing, with heavy seas, fog and blizzards of snow. At 2.25 A.M....
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
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Michel Martell, Senior Partner of His Family Firm In Cognac, In the Wheelhouse of the Southend Life-Boat on the Occasion of the First Issue of Brandy to a Life-Boat Station. As Stated Elsewhere, the H
Michel Martell, senior partner of his family firm in Cognac, in the wheelhouse of the Southend life-boat on the occasion of the first issue of brandy to a life-boat station. As stated elsewhere, the House of Martell has donated cognac to... - View image in PDF
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A Life-Boat Tale
Sound Services Ltd., Merton Park, London, who handle films for the R.N.L.I., said last year that following the loan of the film Part Time Heroes to Woodridge Junior Middle and Infants' School, Southover, North Finchley, London, they...
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The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
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The Grp Arun's Hull Plug Is Double Diagonal Construction Coated With 18 Coats of Furane Resin, Rubbed Down Hard Between Each Coat. the Ultimate Finish of a Glass Rei
The GRP Arun's hull plug is double diagonal construction coated with 18 coats of Furane resin, rubbed down hard between each coat.
The ultimate finish of a glass reinforced plastic hull is dependent on the fine quality... - View image in PDF
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