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The Scottish Life-Boat Council

Date: November 1928

Volume: 27

Issue: 296

THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...

Category: Meetings

Your Letters

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...

Category: Correspondence

List of Awardees

Date: Spring 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 552

Since ihc last Annual Presentalion of Awards, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Life Governorships. 2 Records of Thanks. 5 Bar In Gold Badges and 76 Gold Badges. Awtinli't'. not inteniiini the APA ttiv shown with tin mfrmi...

Category: Awards

Ceremonies

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Naming and dedication Ceremonies Relief Fleet- Arun class Duke of Atholl The City Chambers at Dundee became the scene of great activity on Saturday 12 May 1990 when the Duke of Atholl's private army disembarked from buses and tuned their...

Category: Inaugurations

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...

Category: Articles

Train of Thought

Date: Autumn 1990

Volume: 52

Issue: 514

Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.

'Fire!...

Category: Articles

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

CHANGE OF TITLE OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the "Royal...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Institution and the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...

Category: Articles

The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition

Date: June 1924

Volume: 25

Issue: 281

IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...

Category: Articles

The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

THE Institution has received a personal letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (the Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, D .D.), commending to Catholics the appeal of the life-boat service. It is dated 25th June, 1938.

Category: Correspondence