LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
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Travelscope
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Category: Advertisement
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION is certainly deeply indebted to the ladies and gentlemen who, under the able guidance of Mr. CHARLES W. MACARA, the energetic promoter of the "Life-boat Saturday" move- ment, brought the...
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'Don't let me drown'
‘ I knew I had to keep afloat. Otherwise Peter would come after me. And that thought – if I gave up he would lose his life too – kept me going.’
Peter Severs and Louisa Barrow were in awe as...
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Pearl, Ellen Harrison, Ford Fisher and Isabella
At about 5 P.M. on the llth November, during a northerly gale, signals of distress were seen from the schooner Pearl, of Chester, which was bound from Con- nah's Quay to Dublin with a cargo of fire-clay. The Life-boat Charles and Eliza...
Shoreline
IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
Category: Articles
M. Silas's Inextinguishable Marine Lights
A LIGHT of a novel character, which, from the circumstance of its being inextinguishable by water, bids fair to be a valuable acquisition, has been recently introduced and patented by M. Silas, a French gentleman, who has lately been...
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2d. a Week
A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
Category: Donations
Tamworth Guild Have Held Two 'Knit-Ins' at the Home of Their Chairman Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews More Than £200 Was Raised on Each Occasion Photograph By Courtes
Tamworth guild have held two 'knit-ins' at the home of their chairman, Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews. More than £.200 was raised on each occasion. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. Walker.. - View image in PDF
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