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One Man, one vision

Date: Summer 2013

Volume: 61

Issue: 604 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2013

Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.

And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: January 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 51

SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...

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Golden Charter

Date: Autumn 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 534

You plan for things that might happen.

GOLDEN CHARTER St Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? YOUR FUNERAL. Hopefully it won't be for many years to come. So why plan for it now...

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The Life-Boat Service In 1937

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

DURING 1937 the Institution gave rewards for the rescue from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland of 524 lives. It is the largest number rescued for nine years. Of those lives 439 were rescued by life- boats and 85 by...

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Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...

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Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...

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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1898

Volume: 17

Issue: 190

KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.

In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...

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North of England and Isle of Man Community News

Date: Autumn 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 625 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2018: North of England and Isle of Man Community News

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Fantastic 5p fundraising

When 8-year-old Keegan Luraschi learned that RNLI lifeboat crew members are volunteers who count on public donations to save lives, he set his mind to doing all he...

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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883

Date: May 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 132

Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...

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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended 30th June, 1909

Date: February 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 239

THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...

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