LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the North Sunderland Station
NORTH SUNDERLAND has had a life-boat station since 1827. It was taken over by the Institution in 1852. Beyond the date of its establishment, and the fact that between 1827 and 1852 it had two life-boats, the second of which was transferred...
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Tamworth Guild Have Held Two 'Knit-Ins' at the Home of Their Chairman Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews More Than £200 Was Raised on Each Occasion Photograph By Courtes
Tamworth guild have held two 'knit-ins' at the home of their chairman, Mrs Marion Appleby Matthews. More than £.200 was raised on each occasion. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. Walker.. - View image in PDF
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The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and the Lifeboat Cause
At the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on the 17th March last, the EARL off SHAFTESBURY was present, and delivered the following interesting speech. He said:— " The Committee of this society has conferred ! upon me...
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Centenary of the Boulogne Life-Boat Society
By Major C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.founder, Sir William thus a few months THE Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne-sur-Mer was founded in August, 1825, by the joint efforts of two members...
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The Yachtsmen's Life-Boat Supporters' Association By Commander F R H Swann OBE RNVR
IT has always been a comforting feeling for yachtsmen to know that if they are in trouble off the coasts of the United Kingdom or Ireland and can make a distress signal by visual means or R/T, a life-boat will come to their assistance...
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The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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The Queen Mother (Then Duchess of York)
The Queen Mother (then Duchess of York) in 1926 at the naming ceremony of the Watson Motor lifeboat John Russell at Montrose, one of the oldest RNLI lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank Qf Scot,and p,c DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? y* The Rpy?l Bank If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
A FFTNFTT V WTT W AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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