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In February 1858, the oar-powered Southwold lifeboat capsized in heavy surf. The 15 crew wearing lifebelts were all saved but records show ‘three unfortunate gentlemen who had … neglected to put on lifebelts, lost their lives’. Technology...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of .the: Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout...
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Torpedoed In a Heavy Gale
THE following letter speaks for itself:— Birmingham, December 31st, 1919.
DEAR SIRS, I have great pleasure in enclosing here- with £3 13$. for the funds of the Life-boat Institution, as a token of gratitude for the...
Category: Correspondence
V. Webster
TEDDY BEARS PICNIC When your organisation holds its next fund raising effort at a carnival, fete, donkey derby, boat show or similar activity you can make an additional £200 in a few hours by running a Teddy Bears Picnic. No financial...
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Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1901-1902
SUMMARY ." .u, ,f,ff&vr- ended the. je*& Jane, 190Z, tkeNwnber of"Vessels lost or dawagedon-the coasts.and~m the, seas ofttui Vnrted Kingdom incljuduijcases of-rraxtor damarfe- ffOS 41Z&an i die Ijtss of Life, as fat-...
Category: Charts
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
Category: Articles
High Seas...
The photographer, Hunting Aerofilms, is offering copies of these photographs to readers of THE LIFEBOAT at well below normal rates - and is also making a donation of 25% of the price of each print to the RNLI.
Print Prices...
Category: Articles
Big sick, little sick
The lifeboat volunteer, a teacher himself, wasn’t happy: ‘Nothing makes me more cross than giving up my time and having to suffer bad teaching. Now we’re to be guinea pigs for some new first aid training …’
In 2007, John...
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Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
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