LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
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Newbiggin's New Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat
Newbiggin's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was named Kirklees by Donald While on Saturday July 3. She was funded through the generous support of residents in the Kirklees Metropolitan area, Huddersfield, and among the 500 or... - View image in PDF
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Raymond Baxter Who Opened ' the Modern Lifeboat' Exhibition Studying Crew Position and Vhp Radio of the Atlantic 21 With Miss Margaret Weston Director of the Scie
Raymond Baxter, who opened ' The Modern Lifeboat' exhibition, studying crew position and VHP radio of the Atlantic 21 with Miss Margaret Weston, Director of the Science Museum.. - View image in PDF
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The Mumbles Lifeboat Station
The skipper and one of the crew of the yacht Duet, competing in this year's Three Peaks Yacht Race, presented £J,255 raised in sponsorship to The Mumbles lifeboat station. (I to r) Second Coxswain Alan Jones, Coxswain Derek Scott,... - View image in PDF
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The 50Ft Thames Lifeboat Like May's Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit
The 50ft Thames lifeboat, like May's Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit, is designed with a substantial watertight deckhouse to give her a righting capability. On her righting trials, once the strop is released she comes upright, shaking off... - View image in PDF
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Improved Rollers for Lifeboat Carriages and Skids
Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...
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Sir William Hillary, Bt
Lieutenant Turcopolier of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.
AMONG his distinctions, Sir William Hillary was Lieutenant Turcopolier of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and we...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th September, 1927.
Sir GODFREY. BAROTG, Bt., in the Chair, Ik-ported the receipt of the following special contributions : — £ s. d.
Civil Service Life- boat Fund (per Mr. H. A. Clark) in...
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Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
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