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Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 60

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...

Category: Articles

Prizes Galore at the Mermaid Ball

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Best Essay

Date: June 1931

Volume: 28

Issue: 306

By THERESA KEANEY (aged 13f), of Our Lady's Girls' School, Cavendish Street, Birkenhead, Cheshire.

THERE are thousands of brave men. Why do you look upon the Life-boatman as a hero among them ? Hero ! what does...

Category: Articles

Healthspan

Date: Summer 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 565

ADVANCED VITAMINS & SUPPLEMENTS From the day we are born, good nutrition is vital in maintaining good health. It's one of the most important ways we can help ourselves to a longer, healthier lifespan.

At Healthspan...

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Zelos

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

Signals of distress were seen on the north part of the Barber Sand at 7 A.M. on the 7th December during a fresh N.E.

wind and a heavy sea. The Cockle lightship was also firing guns and rockets.

The Covent...

Annual Report. 1906

Date: May 1906

Volume: 19

Issue: 220

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...

Category: Annual Reports

Features

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...

Category: Articles

A True Story of a Life-Boat Day

Date: September 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 323

IT was life-boat day in Greater London, and it was my privilege to help at a depot which was housed in one of London's famous churches. A busy day was coming to a close and the last collector had handed in her box. It only remained for...

Category: Articles

The Salvors of Property on the English Coasts

Date: October 1867

Volume: 06

Issue: 66

« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.

THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...

Category: Articles

Two Fishing Boats

Date: February 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 227

Informa- tion reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was launched and proceeded to...