LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Advertisement
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
To Mark More Than £10000 Raised By Devenish Brewery for the Rnli
To mark more than £10,000 raised by Devenish Brewery for the RNLI a special presentation was made by Chay Blyth, the round the world yachtsman, on behalf of the company to Rear-Admiral W. J. Graham, director RNLI, at Weymouth lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Surf And Turf A fundraising evening organised by the Campbeltown ladies lifeboat guild was a great success thanks to a fashion show of Douglas Gill's sailing and outdoor clothes and a fascinating talk from Tony Lambert, horticulturist...
Category: Articles
The Launching the Runswick Life-Boat By Women
ON the 12th April, 1901, the fishing cobles belonging to Runswick, a small village on the Yorkshire coast, were afloat when a heavy sea sprung up imperilling their safety. It became evidently a case for the Life-boat, but unfortunately the...
Category: Articles
Milestone (L)' the Duke of Kent Meets Crew Members Who Had Themselves Built Their Boathouse; They Are Introduced By Senior Crew Member Henry Slade Photogra
milestone (/.).' The Duke of Kent meets crew members who had themselves built their boathouse; they are introduced by Senior Crew Member Henry Slade. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Folkestone Herald. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belts Used By the Crews of the Life-Belts of the National Life-Belt Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Man Cut Off By Tide
Letters of commendation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., have been sent to Mr. John Parsons of Luton and Master Michael Dunn of Highbridge for rescuing a man who was cut off by...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th July, 1913.
The Rt. Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.P., in the Chair.
Passed the following resolution :— " The Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION,...
Category: Committee
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