LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What Lancashire and Yorkshire Have Done for the Life-Boat Cause
IT will be in the memory of our readers that the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued a special appeal last year for funds and increased permanent support. They pointed out that, while each year the efficiency of...
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Now in Tesco and Asda
Supporting the RNLI’s lifeboat crews can be as simple as sitting down for a cup of tea.
Lifeboat Tea is already available in Waitrose, and from March you’ll be able to pick up a box in Tesco and Asda stores. For every pack...
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Lifeboat People
Coxswain Richard Evans, BEM, received the Honorary Fellowship of Manchester Polytechnic on Thursday, December 4, 1975, in honour of his long and distinguished service as a member of the crew and as coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat. Coxswain...
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Around the Coast—And Inland
THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the...
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The Ketches Progress, John and Ann, Dolphin, and Martha Jane
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—On the morning of the 24th March, a whole galeblew from the N.E. with heavy squalls of sleet, and the sea was very heavy. At 9.55 signals of distress were shown by vessel at anchor in the bay, and the crew of the Life...
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'Who Said Braintree Did Not Need a Lifeboat?'
'Who said Braintree did not need a lifeboat?' writes 15- year-old A. Taylor who took this photograph at Braintree's fun day on May 15. The D class inflatable lifeboat, he said, was really only there for display! Despite a partly... - View image in PDF
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Receipts and Payments—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1957
1956 £ 185,858 286 40,479 9,808 386 42,575 12,631 2,596 3,360 61,162 2,571 58,591 295,408 4,205 731 744 2,571 8,251 12,416 38,444 50,860 50,360 9,315 47,145 1,574 967 1,409 60,410 24,072 4,460 328 28,860 494,149 PAYMENTS LIFE-BOATS :—...
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Ard Carna (2)
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.—A life-boat station, in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has been established at New Brighton, on the south shore of the Mersey, near Liverpool, and a tubular lifeboat, on the plan of the late H....
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