LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
Regular Customers of the Brewery Shades Pub Crawley Raised £89 By Dropping Coins and Notes Behind a Glass Screen In the Bar a Competition to Guess How Much
Regular customers of the Brewery Shades pub, Crawley, raised £89 by dropping coins and notes behind a glass screen in the bar.
A competition to guess how much was behind the screen was won by Rufus, a dog.
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Category: Photographs
Hannah
LOWEBTOEF,— The coxswain of the Samuel PlimwU Life-boat was called at 6 A.sr. on the llth October as a schooner was observed driving over Corton Sands, the sea breaking over her. The crew were at once summoned, and the Life-boat proceeded to...
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare Has Been Accorded the Institution's Sincere Thanks On
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare has been accorded the Institution's sincere thanks on vellum for the experimental design work he did for rigid inflatable lifeboats while Provost of the United College of the Atlantic, as well as for his work... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Corner of the Exhibition at the Post Office Communications Centre London Organised By Mr Ian Carr a Keen Supporter of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat F
A corner of the exhibition at the Post Office Communications Centre, London, organised by Mr Ian Carr, a keen supporter of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund.
He has started a branch.
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Category: Photographs
Sponsored Walks Sails Silences Swims Joan Manning Dos (Midland Shires) Greets Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock of Wrekin College As They Arrive at Worcest
Sponsored walks, sails, silences, swims . . . Joan Manning, DOS (Midland Shires), greets Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, of Wrekin College, as they arrive at Worcester at the end of a 100-mile sponsored paddle from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Take a tour of RNLI College
See for yourself how our crews and lifeguards are trained and prepped to save lives at sea with a behind-the-scenes tour of RNLI College.
College discovery tours are run at 11am and 2.30pm from Monday–Thursday, at 11am and...
Category: Articles
COMMITTEE of MANAGEMENT
Vice Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.S.C., who lives in Northern Ireland, has joined the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I.
Admiral Hezlet, who retired in 1964, served in submarines during the war....
Category: Committee
Three Yachts including Lucky Girl
Yacht saved by shore helpers ILFRACOMBE LIFEBOAT, the 37ft Oakley class Lloyds II, had launched to a yacht in difficulties in an east-north-easterly gale on the night of Friday June 20, 1986. With the help of a local sand dredger Arco Tamar...
Her Majesty Queen Mary
BY the death of Her Majesty Queen Mary on the 24th of March, 1953, the Life-boat Service lost one of its three Royal Patrons. Queen Mary was the third of the five queens—Queen Vic- toria, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth (now the...
Category: Obituaries