LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
WE think it will be of interest to our readers to have a brief survey of the Life-boat services of the world, so far as the recent statistics of their activities are available. We have, therefore, com- piled the following notes from the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Mr. J. L. Tillett, a leading member of the Norwich Round Table (which paid for the IRB at Happisburgh) is a jeweller by trade. He made some delightful miniature badges depicting a life-boat, in gold and colour, which were sold at the Norfolk...
Category: Donations
Dear Reader
‘There’s no need to worry. The RNLI will always be there to look after us!’ That’s the oft-heard mantra of many a sea or beach goer – and a dangerous assumption to be tackled.
The costs of maintaining a comprehensive...
Category: Articles
The Fourth Part of the World
The Fourth Part of the World
By Toby Lester
Review by Peter Bradley
In ancient times the Earth, placed at the centre of the cosmos, was known to have three parts: Asia, Europe and Africa....
Category: Articles
Mrs Elsie Noel
Mrs Elsie Noel, vice chairman of Mumbles Ladies' Guild from 1979 until her death.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1985..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Eileen Easman
JANAURY 1990: Mrs Eileen Easman, honorary treasurer of North Chingford branch from 1972 to 1984.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
29th October. Distress flares reported but nothing could be found. It was prob- ably the aeroplane to which Dover also launched.—Rewards £40 7s. 9d.
(A full account of this launch appears on p. 8, of this...
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1881
Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...
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Rentokil
By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen Pot Control & Timber Preservation Services & Products An admittedly modest quid pro quo You save lives. We save buildings.
Including, we're pleased to say, many R.N.L.I....
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