LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles
Division of the Midlands District
OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
Category: Committee
A Village Bazaar
£83 from a Population of 558.A LIFE-BOAT worker who lives in the village of Shuttleworth, near Ramsbottom, in Lancashire, held a Life-boat Bazaar on 8th May. Her party consisted of herself, her two daughters and five working girls. The...
Category: Donations
The Institution's Income at a Glance
The Institution's Income at a Glance.
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1932.
£ s. d.
38 6 0 —••••— — -—H ——«* Subscriptions,...
Category: Accounts
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—Very early on the morning of the 30th January, 1938, the watchman at Curracloe reported rockets between the Lucifer and Blackwater Light-vessels. A storm was blowing from the N.W. by W., and a heavy sea was...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1933.
£ s. d.
36 1 6 H MHU HMI HB HBB Sulisci'lpt ions, Donations and Lifeboat Days.
38 1 6 ———••— ——...
Category: Accounts
The Barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...
Rosemary II and Betty Sheader
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 3Gth of December, 1955, information was received from the crews of fishing boats coming in from sea that the wind was freshening and the weather worsening. There were doubts about the safety...
Reaper
St. Ives, Cornwall.—-At 4.43 in the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local pleasure boat Reaper, with a boat- man and twelve passengers aboard, had struck a rock between Wicca Point and Zennor Point,...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 June 1989, show that so far this year: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 871 times (an average of more than 5 launches a day) More than 332 lives were saved (an average of 2 people...
Category: Articles