LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
With Almost a Mile of Shelving, 3,500 Items and 90,000 Orders a Year to Process It Doesn 't Pay to Lose Track of Anything…
With almost a mile of shelving, 3,500 items and 90,000 orders a year to process it doesn 't pay to lose track of anything…. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
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List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 October–31 December 2016
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Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Runcorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
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PAUL HANCOCK HELM ROCK LIFEBOAT STATION
We were paged, got to the station and told we were looking for someone in the water. The conditions were wind against tide … rough, choppy, an extremely cold wind. The area we searched is between an island and headland – the tide runs... - View image in PDF
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The Fundraisers
Boule me over! Treliske Cellar Supplies of Truro are staunch supporters of the lifeboat service. Five years ago the company's managing director, Bill Peaker, came up with the idea of playing the French game ofboule and organised the...
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Anchor-Shot and Grapnel-Shot
ONE of the chief difficulties attendant upon life-boats, consists in launching them from an exposed beach. It is rarely, if ever, that a boat can be launched from a carriage direct into the open sea in a gale of wind ; although it is...
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Swanage Centenary
'When we're needed—we're needed! And when we're needed, we'll be there!' THESE WORDS of a Swanage coxswain, logged in the station history, are a promise this little Dorset town has been proud to fulfil. Opening the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd October, 1884.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P,, in the Chair.! Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and j Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub- '...
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