LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
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A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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Taken from a Painting By Edward Walker of the Mexico and Lytham Lifeboat See 'Prints for Sale' on P 301
Taken from a painting by Edward Walker of the Mexico and Lytham lifeboat. See 'Prints for Sale' on p. 301..
Category: Drawings
Brian Potts (I) Who Came Ashore In 1976 After 16 Years at Sea As An Engineer Officer In the Merchant Navy Presents a Painting to Eastbourne Lifeboat Museum It Wa
Brian Potts (I.), who came ashore in 1976 after 16 years at sea as an engineer officer in the Merchant Navy, presents a painting to Eastbourne Lifeboat Museum. It was accepted by Alderman Cecil Baker c.), station honorary secretary, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
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A Cheque for £160 Was Presented on 7Th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat,
A cheque for £160 was presented on 7th January, 1970, to the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat, winners of Westward TV's life-boat competition run in conjunction with the regional quiz programme 'Treasure Hunt'. Every time a... - View image in PDF
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Diver Boy
Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...