LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
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The Schoolboys' Own Exhibition
THE Institution took a small stall at the Schoolboys' Own Exhibition which was held during the first week of January. On the opening day it also had the use of a stall called King Arthur's Table, which was given, without charge, to a...
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Centenary of the Institution, 1924
Appeal to Honorary Secretaries.
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station...
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Old Age and the Life-Boat Service. Helpers of 79, 86, 94, 98 and 102
REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.
There are five more very touching examples of such service.
A Croydon lady 79 years old has...
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Fishing Boats (2)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....
The S.S. Ford Fisher, of Barrow
Dungeness, Kent. — At about [11.30 M. on the 10th December, 1937,information was received from a local boatman that a steamer was aground off the No. 2 Station. A whole S.S.^T gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and heavy rain. The No. 2...
The Three-Masted Motor Schooner Agnes Craig
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour.
Golden Eagle
Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...
New Ways of Raising Money
Mrs. Smith of Southport has handed to the Southport Guild the sum of £5, raised by a collection of a penny a week contributed by each member of the St. Andrew's Inner Wheel over 6o's Club.
Topsham Sailing Club...
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Launcher Will Soon Be 100
Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.
It is recalled that, with his brother who...
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