At the South East District Conference George A. Hodgkins (r.), vice-president ofReigate and Redhill branch, presented a cheque for £10,000 to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, KCB, chairman of the Fund Raising Committee, watched by the... - View image in PDF
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The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...
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Miss E. Dobie, ex-president of the Dunoon ladies' life-boat guild, reported late last year that one of their oldest guild members, Miss Oswald, had celebrated her hundredth birthday.
She lives at Kilmun, near Dunoon,...
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The best thing about this job is the people
While putting Lifeboat magazine together, we get to speak with some incredible people. They all say they’re just regular folk, but we know they’re achieving extraordinary things....
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TWO CASUALTIES TAKEN OFF TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 5th May, 1962, the honorary secretary was asked if the life-boat could be launched later in the day to bring a sick man and an injured man ashore...
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
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The Stromness Lifeboat is lying off the steamer, and the rope by which the crew were rescued can just be seen over the steamer's stern. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboats depend on Dagenite Batteries So can you.
Dagenite batteries are used extensively by the RNLhand they don'ttake any chances. Isn't this the kind of dependability you want for your car Dagenite dependability...
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Lerwick: The 52ft Arun Soldian before her naming. In background, moored alongside, can be seen the Norwegian lifeboat Skomvaer II: she was also visited by the Duke of Kent during the afternoon.
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ILeftl Launching at New Quay in 1946 This 35ft Liverpool class lifeboat was built at a cost of £961 and named William Cantrell Ashley, one of five lifeboats to be provided out a legacy of Charles Can Ashley, of Mentone, in... - View image in PDF
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