LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings.
ALNWICK.—On 15th February, Canon Manby presided in the absence of the Chairman, Sir Francis E. Walker, Bt. The Treasurer's report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, which was carried, showed the...
Category: Branches
New Ways of Raising Money
The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
Category: Donations
Thanks from the RAF
When an R.A.F. Gnat trainer crashed into the sea—the two pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed—on 8th June, 1968, the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was quick off the mark. Group Captain W....
Category: Correspondence
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Category: Advertisement
Istar and Ship's Boat
LIFE-BOAT TAKES TWO BOATS IN TOW Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.54 on the evening of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Pertinence of Rochester had taken the cabin cruiser Istar,...
The Self-Righting Life-Boat
THE award of the prize of £600 and a gold medal made by her Majesty's Commis- sioners of the INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES EXHIBITION to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION for the " best full-sized Life-Boat, fully equipped,...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 97. Lives rescued 84.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the even- ing of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran...
Category: Services
Cogswell & Harrison Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Cogswell and Harrison Ltd
ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FLASHLIGHTS DYNALITE FLASHES One of the world's most powerful flashlights, specially imported from the U.S.A. This six-cell flashlight is 80,000 candle power made of strong plastic, and...
Category: Advertisement
American Ship Torpedoed
Early in 1945 the German U-boats renewed their attacks on shipping close to the British coasts and one of the first ships to suffer was an American steamer which was torpedoed off South Wales. She was taken in tow, but broke away in a gale...
Category: Articles