Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., has been appointed Secretary of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. He will succeed Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., who is retiring at the end of the year from the post of Secretary after nearly 40 years in the...
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Announcement In this issue of THE LIFE-BOAT is an order form for R.N.L.I. Christmas cards and calendars and on page 175 details of new R.N.L.I. hand-made cuff-links and delectable R.N.L.I.
cook book mainly for the...
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With the help of Mr. Clayton Love, jnr., member of the Committee of Management, who was Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at the time, the Dublin Office has acquired a quantity of special First Day Covers (as illustrated) for sale at 40p... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The James Stevens No 20 at Queenstown. - View image in PDF
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AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles
In the course of 24 hours on 28th-29th October, 1880, the Scarborough life-boat was launched five times and rescued every life in danger—28 in all. The detail is part of a painting of the scene presented to Scarborough Corporation in 1897 by...
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St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...
AUTUMN 2017 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr M Ferguson from Buckinghamshire who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Ms V Storey, South...
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I. By JOAN PATUICIA ROSE JEFFERIS (13), The Circus Church School, Portsmouth, Hants Why I should like to be a Life-boatman.
THERE are many noble callings in life in which workers have lit lamps of self-sacrifice,...
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AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...
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