LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
• In his latest book, Rescue by Sail and Oar (Tops'l Books, £2.50), Ray Kipling, the RNLFs public relations officer, has written an absorbing account of the long period during which lifeboats were driven by muscle and windpower...
Category: Articles
The American Way
Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...
Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...
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Silver Medal for Whitby Life-Boatman
The King has awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to John Robert Harland, of the Whitby life-boat crew, for diving overboard to the rescue of a fisherman in a heavy sea. As announced in the last issue, the Institution...
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H.M. King Edward VIII, Patron of the Institution
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 130 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 39 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 15th, 1936 64,658 H.M. King Edward VII, Patron of the...
Category: Committee
The Fundraisers
Flags out for the lifeboats From Pinner to Plumstead, Romford to Richmond, Potters Bar to Petts Wood, members of almost 100 London branches were knocking on doors between 9 and 16 March during the RNLI's London lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated fry Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IH 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BX VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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Fast Work
The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
Category: Articles
Summer Sands
Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
Category: Poetry
Boville Studioes
CAPITAL SHI: H.M.S. WARSP1TE H.M.S. HOOD H.M.S. DUKE OF YORK Print Size 13" x 9" The might and majesty of Britains 'Senior Service' comes alive in this series of superb signed colour prints by Philip Boville. Produced by...
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