LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) the Mass Start of a Mini Marathon Organised By Sodbury
(Right) The mass start of a mini marathon organised by Sodbury and District branch on September 27, 1981, when £3,000 was raised for the RNLI. A total of 329 runners ran the 15-mile course and enjoyed it so much that the marathon is to... - View image in PDF
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Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
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Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford Branch Had Highflying Ideas for Fund Raising for John Stoker a Branch Committee Member Persuaded Some of His Frien
Members of the Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch had highflying ideas for fund raising, for John Stoker, a branch committee member, persuaded some of his friends to make a sponsored parachute jump.
When all the jumpers... - View image in PDF
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Bess
Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...
Two Life-boatmen Cross the Atlantic
IN March, 1949, two former members of the life-boat's crew at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Stanley Smith, aged thirty, and Colin Smith, aged twenty-nine, sons of Coxswain S. T. Smith, went to Canada. There, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, they...
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Marathon Oil Uk Offered to Pay the Costs of Peterhead Lifeboat Station
Marathon Oil UK offered to pay the costs of Peterhead lifeboat station for a year and last February Ed McFarland (centre r), the company's Aberdeen general manager, presented a cheque for 15,000 dollars to John Geddes (centre I),... - View image in PDF
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The Photograph Below Shows the Prince of Wales at the Helm of B-3 Inflatable Craft During a Visit to Atlantic College, St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire, Where He Was Shown a Number of Simila
The photograph below shows the Prince of Wales at the helm of B-3 inflatable craft during a visit to Atlantic College, St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire, where he was shown a number of similar experimental boats.
He... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Instance One of the Falmouth Ladies' Guild's Most Ardent Collectors and Mother of One of the Committee Members Was Photographed With Lone Atlantic Yachtsman Gerry Speiss Shortly Afte
Mrs Instance, one of the Falmouth ladies' guild's most ardent collectors, and mother of one of the committee members, was photographed with lone atlantic yachtsman, Gerry Speiss, shortly after his triumphant arrival at Falmouth.... - View image in PDF
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Bull Point Lighthouse Bristol Channel Was Opened By Captain David Tibbitts Ssc Rn Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and An Ex-Officio Member of Our Com
Bull Point Lighthouse, Bristol Channel, was opened by Captain David Tibbitts, ssc RN, Deputy Master and Chairman of Trinity House and an ex-officio member of our Committee of Management.
Designed by a Trinity House team... - View image in PDF
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A Memorial to Richard Cowling, Who Was Coxswain of the Flamborough Life-Boat for 20 Years, Was Unveiled In Flamborough Church on 18th June
A memorial to Richard Cowling, who was coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat for 20 years, was unveiled in Flamborough church on 18th June. Here the Vicar (the Rev.
E. Appleyard) is pointing to the memorial stone which... - View image in PDF
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