LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews...
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Centenary of the Institution, 1924
Appeal to Honorary Secretaries.
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure.—1st Jan. To 31st Dec. 1902 [Wrong Page]
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Category: Accounts
Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
People and Places
Ian picks the winners Ian Ventham, RNLI Head of Fundraising and Marketing, (pictured with Judith Saint, Finance and Systems Manager) drew the winners of the Lifeboat Lottery on 29 October. The 87th draw, which took place at lifeboat...
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New Ways of Raising Money
Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
Category: Donations
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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"Many Inventions."
IT is only natural in this and other countries that the humane desire to improve the means for saving life from shipwreck should appeal to and occupy the minds of men -with a turn for invention or mechanically...
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Falke
At 7.20 A.M. on the llth January rockets were observed in the direction of the Cross Sand light- vessel, and while the crew of the Life- boat were being assembled, a message was received by wireless telegraphy stating that a vessel was...
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YOUNG PAIR RESCUE BOYS AT ABOUT 5.30 p.m. on 29th May, 1972, three young children were playing on the outer pier of North Sunderland harbour. The wind was westerly force 4-5 with a long heavy swell coming in from a north-easterly direction....