LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Lights and Lighthouses
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
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A Working Man on the Life-Boat Service
THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
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Fig 3: Mahogany Filler Chocks Fitted to Longitudinals Between Timbers Are Individually Shaped to Take Up Fore and Aft Curve of Hull
Fig. 3: Mahogany filler chocks fitted to longitudinals between timbers are individually shaped to take up fore and aft curve of hull.. - View image in PDF
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Two By Two They Rode to the Young Farmers' Conference at Blackpool Members of the Norton and Gaulby Young Farmers' Club Solved a Transport Problem and Raise
Two by two they rode to the Young Farmers' Conference at Blackpool.
Members of the Norton and Gaulby Young Farmers' Club solved a transport problem and raised money for the RNLl as they went by organising a... - View image in PDF
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Blyth Lifeboatmen Try Out a Rother Lifeboat at Swanage: (Above I to R) Lt Alan Tate Divisional Inspector of Lifeboat (Ne) Assistant Mechanic John Scott Motor Mechan
Blyth lifeboatmen try out a Rother lifeboat at Swanage: (above, I. to r.) Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector of lifeboat (NE), Assistant Mechanic John Scott, Motor Mechanic Colin Cuthbertson, and Crew Members Les Fay, George Turner, Tom Moss... - View image in PDF
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Stars of a 'Going for a Song' Evening Arranged By Ashtead and Leatherhead Branches Last November Were (I to R) Richard Baker As Chairman With Contestants Mollie Sug
Stars of a 'Going for a Song' evening arranged by Ashtead and Leatherhead branches last November were (I. to r.) Richard Baker as chairman with contestants Mollie Sugden and Bill Pertwee. Two experts, Brian Clarke and Alastair... - View image in PDF
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The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, Crew Rowing Down Woolwich Reach In the 5Th RNLI Annual Sponsored Marathon Row, Gravesend to Greenwich and Back, August 18,
The Prince of Wales, Gravesend, crew rowing down Woolwich Reach in the 5th RNLI annual sponsored marathon row, Gravesend to Greenwich and back, August 18, 1974. It all started with Eric Lupton's idea in 1970. Twelve boats rowed from... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services November and December 1983 January and February 1984
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: November 5 and December 2 Relief 52ft Arun: January 26 and February 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 4 Aldeburgh, Suffolk Relief 42ft Beach: December 30 and January 5 Amble, Northumberland 37ft 6in...
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Across the Years
50 years ago the RNLI linked the Battle of Britain with the Isle of Man Fifty years ago this autumn, at a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday 3 September 1940, the emotionless voice of an airfield controller scrambled a small group of...
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Mr Raymond Baxter the Well Known BBC's Personality Signing Autographs at the Spring Fair Organised By the Rugby Branch of the RNLI at the Benn Memorial Hall
Mr. Raymond Baxter, the well known B.B.C.'s personality, signing autographs at the Spring Fair organised by the Rugby branch of the R.N.L.I. at the Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, on 15th April, 1972, when £1,504 was raised.
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