LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• A new and expanded history of Penlee and Penzance branch entitled Penlee is just being produced and will appear before this spring journal is published. It is written by John Corin and Grahame Farr with a foreword by Mary Richards, mother...
Category: Articles
Strait Talking
The narrow stretch of water which separates England from France has long been a hub of marine activity, and lifeboat stations have been established there for nearly 200 years. Mike Floyd looks at the Dover Straits today and the way in which...
Category: Articles
Peace
At 9 P.M.
on the 30th September distress rockets were seen in the direction of the Swin Middle light-vessel. The information was conveyed to the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14, and rockets were fired to...
Hands Up!
Hands up! The Western Pioneers Show Team, a group of disabled and able-bodied people from West Wickhurn, 'held up' customers in aid of the RNLl. During a countrywide promotion each Texaco garage adopted a local charitv for three davs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Warnford Tea Trading Company Limited
m Help us help the R.N.L.I.
• Every cup counts ORDER FORM TO:- The Warnford Tea Trading Company Limited, Unit D, Cradock Road, Luton LU4 OJF. Tel. (0582) 505336 Telex 826914 MINIMUM ORDER:- 10 parcels, made up from any of...
Category: Advertisement
Chums
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Category: Advertisement
Chris Davies
Chris Davies Cardigan crew member, aged just 20, from a tragic road accident on 18 November.
Category: Obituaries
October Gales. Two Gold Medals Awarded to Moelfre, Anglesey, and Two Silver Medals to St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Category: Articles
The Harbour Tug Adur II
On the afternoon of the 2nd October the coast- guard reported that the Shoreham Harbour tug Adur II, while towing a hopper out to sea, had fouled^her propeller, and was drifting on to a lee shore. A strong, and increasing, S. breeze was...
Maggie (1)
Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to the Newhaven life-boat station that the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a...