LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bradford Exchange
In celebration of the € Oth Anniversary of Dunkirk: Each plaie measures 6 '/« x 8 'A inches (15.8120.9 cm) Hardwood plate display measures appro*. 25 '/2 x 8 '/2 inches 'Endeavour' THE SPIRIT OF DUNKIRK An...
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Torbay, Devon - At 8 p.m. on 5th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two climbers were stranded at the foot of Long Quarry cliffs, Babbacombe, and could not be rescued from the shore. The life-boat Peter and...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. William McDowell, showing the 60- feet motor life-boat at New Brighton,...
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Hamlyn Group (BASH Ltd)
Bookw of the I Bookshop Offer Price £4.95 Price after 1st July £ 6.95 Every copy sold makes a contribution to the RNLI! This is the exciting story of the RNLI: the men, the boats, the rescues, and has been chosen by a panel of...
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The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
A Light-Ship Electrically Connected With the Shore. (From the Times, 20th March, 1894.)
THE Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Light-houses and Light - vessels recommended that five light-vessels be immediately connected with the shore by a telegraphic cable, viz., the Goodwin, at the north end of the sand; the...
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Brave new world
Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.
An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...
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Two Gallant Life-Boat Rescues
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid ser- vices, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institu- tion, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115...
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Members' Page
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
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