LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Cardiff ladies' guild increased their income in 1976 by about 30 per cent.
Of the £5,010 they raised for the lifeboat service last year £1,460 was by way of their annual collection and £1,000 was the...
Category: Donations
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles
Four Months of War
THE first four months of war, from 3rd September to the 31st December, have been the most crowded and hazardous in the whole history of the life-boat service.
Its crews have gone out to the rescue more often, and they have...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
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Category: Committee
The Sand-Sucker Agivey
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 4.45 A.M.
on the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel about a mile N.E. of the Brake Light-vessel was burning flares. A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The reserve...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last March Hayling Island station branched raised £1,008 with a ball Sinah Warren in aid of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal which was well supported by Islanders, by members of local sailing clubs and by members of neighbouring...
Category: Donations
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen (1)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
The Dredger Beverwjk
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.52 p.m. on i8th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch tug with the dredger Beverwjk in tow from Holland to the Tees had broken adrift and had been seen heading for the Tyne...
The S.S. Kentwood (1)
DEC. 27TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, was sink-ing rapidly in the north Downs, and that her captain was trying to beach her. The Ramsgate...
The Mumbles Life-Boat Disaster Fund
AT a final meeting of the committee and representatives of the subscribers to the Mayor of Swansea's 1947 Mumbles Life-boat Disaster Fund, which was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on the 4th of June, a scheme was approved for the...
Category: Accounts