LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 22nd day of April, 1852, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the...
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Life-Boats and Life-Saving Apparatus In the United States of America
WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
Category: Articles
Concerning Public Opinion on the Mercantile Marine, and the Corporate Interests Connected Therewith
THE "British Public" has of late mani- fested a considerable degree of dissatisfac- tion at the general state of the Mercantile Marine, a dissatisfaction which is none the less real in fact because it can hardly be said—at least in...
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The French Life-Boat Service
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
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M a Bigland (Preparations) Ltd
[Reliable oteable Logistical jnvaluable TALUS-MB-C and TALUS-MB-764 were designed and manufactured to meet the exacting requirements of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
They are built and specially treated to...
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Aged Eighty-Four
Mr. Francis Roxburgh, at one time assistant judge in the Lord Mayor's Court, a member of the Paddington branch committee, collecting on life-boat day in Greater London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Holy Island
From a photograph by Capt. E. W. Swan, C.B.E., VD.. D.L.. R.N.V.R.. a member of the Committee 0} Management and Chairman of the Tyr.emouth Branch.. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat House at the Coronation
The. decorations were designed by a member of the Institution's staff, and at night the house was lit up with the floodlights used at its boathouses.. - View image in PDF
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Admiral Sir William Slayter, K.G.B., D.S.O., D.S.C.
The death is reported of Admiral Sir William Slayter, K.C.B., D.S.O., D.S.G., who was a member of the Committee of Management for 18 years and a vice president of the R.N.L.I, since 1962..
Category: Obituaries
New Year Honours
K.B. Major-General Ralph Henry Farrant, a member of the Committee of Management.
M.B.E. Mr. Anthony Patrick Mac- Grory, J.P., honorary secretary, Campbeltown station branch..
Category: Awards