LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Foresters' Life-Boat
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ROGER KEYES, BT., G.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.M.G., D.S.O., D.C.L., M.P., named at Shering- ham on 18th July a new motor life-boat, presented to the Institution by the Ancient Order of Foresters in com- memoration of its own...
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Book Reviews
Anyone interested in the organization of a major charity will find Two Ears of Corn by Mervyn Jones (Hodder and Stoughton, 2i/-) a stimulating work.
This is the story of the growth of Oxfam from an inaugural meeting held by...
Category: Articles
Scholarships for Sons of Life-Boatmen
THE Outward Bound Sea School, at Aberdovey, which runs four-weekly courses in seamanship and some other out-of-door subjects for boys from fifteen to eighteen and a half years old, offered the Institution in March of this year six King...
Category: Articles
Above Right: the Lifeboat Shop
Above right: The Lifeboat Shop earns over £30,000 a year for Dublin branch. Its main trade is in second hand clothes which are donated by the bundle. They are sorted, put on display and sold by a dedicated band of volunteer ladies who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Two 'Horrors' Pictured Above Were Snapped at the Lawford Fun Day on 13 June
The two 'horrors' pictured above were snapped at the Lawford Fun Day on 13 June, which was flag dayforthe Mistley and Manningtree Branch in Essex.
During the branch's lifeboat week, £1,458.08 was collected,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Wireless Appeal
On March 4th., the I2ist. birthday of the. Life-boat Service, Lord Winster, a member of the Committee of Management, made an appeal for it on the air.
This appeal was "The Week's Good Cause" in the home...
Category: Articles
Etoile du Marin
SCARBOROUGH.-—On the morning of the 8th December, at 10 o'clock, the schooner Etoile du Marin, of and for Dunkirk from Leith, with coal, was approaching the harbour during a strong gale from the E., and a very heavy sea, and as it was...
A Dinghy
DRIFTING TO SEA Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.15 p.m. on 16th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three people in a small dinghy were trying to attract attention. Their craft was off Holland Haven drifting seawards...
Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
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MERMAID quality and reliability is also specified by Boatbuilders worldwide who take...
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Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
R.N.L.I., rely on Mermaid T THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...
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