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Radio Equipment In Life-Boats

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Inspector of Machinery (Electrical], Royal National Life-boat Institution.

ViTH the exception of seven short- range boats, all the Institution's life-boats, both in the active and in the active reserve fleet, are...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.

THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.

There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...

Category: Articles

Book Reviews

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.

Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...

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Lifeboat Services

Date: Summer 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 513

LIFEBOATMAN ALONE ABOARD PILOT BOAT PLUCKS CREW TO SAFETY IN SEVERE GALE Three rescued from tug after night collision with coaster Shane Coleman, Second Coxswain/Mechanic of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal...

Category: Services

Foreign coins

Date: Spring 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 472

Tesco Stores Ltd, the biggest supermarket chain in the British Isles, has kindly agreed to collect foreign coins for the RNLI in their stores from July to September. It is estimated that there are millions of pounds worth of foreign coins,...

Category: Donations

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Date: November 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 134

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBKOKESHIBK.—At about midnight on the 27th May, rockets were fired from the South Bishops Lighthouse.

The crew of the Augusta Life-boat were summoned; the boat was launched, and on reaching the lighthouse...

Pacific

Date: August 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 117

NEWQUAY CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the 1st January 1880 the Nelson Life-boat put off to the aid of the barque Pacific, of Swansea, which was in a dangerous position near the shoals in the bay during a1 fresh W. gale and hazy weather. One of...

Neco Marine Ltd

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

J. H. MINET LIFE & PENSIONS LTD is proud of its close association with the R.N.L.I, as advisers to its employees on all aspects of life assurance, investment and house purchase.

As part of MINET HOLDINGS, one of the...

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The Great British Mobility Group

Date: Autumn 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 578

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Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)

Date: Summer 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 493

• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.

Should an organisation so...

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