LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Crew Change During a 12-Hour Sponsored Sail Lasting From
A crew change during a 12-hour sponsored sail lasting from midday to midnight at Denham Sailing Club last September.
Ruislip and Woodlands Park clubs also took part, II dinghies in all, and on a sunny day with a steady... - View image in PDF
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Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J. Graham with a cheque for £3,250.
Chairman of Filofax PLC, Mr David Collischon, presents the director Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham with a cheque for £3,250. The cheque was a percentage of profits made from the sale of Filofax personal organisers made from... - View image in PDF
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La Fee des Ondes
Peel, Isle of Man. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 26th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a French trawler was ashore on Peel Island. At 1.40 the life- boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was...
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
Category: Articles
A Barracuda Aeroplane
JANUARY 3RD. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A Barracuda aeroplane had been reported in the sea after striking the target ship, but no survivors could be found.- Rewards, £17 14s..
A coastal living
Communities have naturally evolved on the coast due to their very proximity to the sea and the riches it brings. However, fluctuating demand, depleting natural resources and the discovery of new ones, have meant that coastal peoples have had...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Gifts from a Collector of Flags
A COLLECTOR of flags in Dorset has sent the Institution five gifts, in the course of seven weeks, amounting to £12 14*. He had asked five shipping companies for their house-flags and suggested that, instead of paying them, he should...
Category: Donations
Two Stills from the New Film, 'Bequest to a Village',
Two stills from the new film, 'Bequest to a Village', which has been donated by W. D.
and H. O. Wills to the R.N.L.I. The Susan Ashley is shown being launched at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, and (left) children at Sennen... - View image in PDF
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Classifieds
Rescue at sea By Clayton Evans Published by Chrysalis Books ISBN 0851779344 Price: £35 Canadian Coast Guard Coxswain Clayton Evans has spent a decade gathering material from all over the world to create this reference and general...
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