LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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Bognor Regis Branch
Landing an lllb 9-V4OZ eel cannot be the easiest thing in the world, but 11-year-old Barry Davies (I) managed it and won £100, a fishing rod and other prizes by beating all comers at the Bognor Regis Amateur Angling Society's... - View image in PDF
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Lymington Right the Way Round the Isle of Wight
How long would it take two canoeists, paddling inflatable canoes, to travel from Lymington, right the way round the Isle of Wight and back to Lymington again? That was the question put to everyone entering a competition organised by Rob... - View image in PDF
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Histories of Six Life-Boat Stations. Rhyl, The Lizard, Tynemouth, Sennen Cove, Bembridge and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.
Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...
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The S.S. English Trader
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1935.
£ s. d.
61 7 0 BB _B _ _ __ _ MHB Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspec- tion of Life-boats and Life-boat...
Category: Accounts
Seven-Year-Old Laura Scaife Receives Her Commemorative Storm Force Nameplate from Brian Johnson of Intercity
Seven-year-old Laura Scaife receives her commemorative Storm Force nameplate from Brian Johnson of InterCity after naming the InterCity 125 train after the RNLI's junior club. The Institution was also presented with a mounted... - View image in PDF
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Naming Ceremonies: Ireland. Kilmore and Hovvth
Two new motor life-boats have been sent to the Irish coast this year: Kil- more, County Wexford, and Howth, County Dublin.
Kilmore, County Wexford.
The new motor life-boat at Kilmore has replaced a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
The Motor Coble Ben My Chree
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M.
on the 25th June, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor coble Ben My Chree, with two men on board, was then two and a half miles N.E. of Heugh. With a northerly...