LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat was rung up on the telephone by the Coastguard at 8.55 P.M. on the 13th February and informed that the St. Nicholas Light- vessel was firing signals for a vessel in distress to the north-westward. He...
Letters
in the autumn 2004 issue of the Lifeboat, we reported on the opening of The Lifeboat College in Pooie, Dorset. We described some of the facilities and equipment available on this unique site and talked to some of those who are to benefit...
Category: Correspondence
Health & Home Shopping,
TWO 95 d Verdigris effect j 5ath STab Encourage the wild birds into your garden all year round with this delightful Verdigris effect Bird Bath & Table.
Constructed in UY Stabilised polyresin, it h.is ,ill the looks ot...
Category: Advertisement
Shoreline Club No 4 Milton Keynes:
Shoreline Club No. 4, Milton Keynes: the prize-winning 8ft model lifeboat entered for a local Soap Box Derby.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 7th July, 1916.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Read and confirmed the minutes oi the...
Category: Committee
Special delivery
OLD LIFEBOAT, NEW COUNTRY
Some years after I had retired as Mallaig lifeboat Coxswain/Mechanic, I discovered that my old Arun class lifeboat (pictured) had been sold to the Icelandic Rescue Service. So, after a deal of...
Category: Articles
Epworth Ladies' Guild's
Cold and foggy weather in Humberside failed to deter supporters from Epworth ladies' guild's third threshing day in late December, 1984.
The event, inspired by a desire to preserve old farming methods, was hosted by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chip and Who?
No, not the real Chippendales! These are actually members of Peterhead lifeboat crew doing a good imitation while modelling at the recent fashion show organised by Peterhead ladies' guild. Thanks to Mackays Stores and all the willing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of Jan- uary, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick woman in need of hospital treatment to Scapa pier, because the road from Stromness to Kirkwall...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 21st July 1879 the Mincing Lane Life-boat rendered some assistance to the Dutch fishing-smack Nooit Polmakt, which had gone too far to the northward while running for the harbour, and had stranded on the Annat Bank...
Category: Services