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Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type

Date: June 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 314

UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.

In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...

Category: Articles

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

Thursday, 8th November, 1934.

Sir GODFREY -BARING, Bt., in the chair.

Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— . - £ s. d.

South Metropolitan' Gas Co. ...

Category: Committee

Notes of the Quarter

Date: June 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 392

IN making his report on the past year's work of the life-boat service at the Institution's annual general meeting on the 30th of March, a meeting which is reported in full on page 436, Earl Howe, the Chairman of the Committee of...

Category: Articles

Swedish Journey

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

THIS is the story of a cruise among the islands of the West Coast of Sweden in August, 1950, by the ex Royal National life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, and her crew of Sea Scouts.

Henry Frederick Sivan, which is a 40 foot...

Category: Articles

Scrivens,

Date: Spring 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 540

"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...

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Healthspan

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

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Category: Advertisement

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society

Date: August 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 81

THE Thirty-second Annual Meeting of this philanthropic Institution, which is supported entirely by voluntary contributions to assist destitute persons cast away upon our coasts, was held on the 26th May last at the Mansion House, the Right...

Category: Meetings

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Date: Spring 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 615 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2016

On a popular Devon beach, unseasonably warm weather tempted people into the delights of the surf – and the dangers of the rip current …

While many families spent the afternoon carving Halloween pumpkins on 31 October 2015,...

Category: Articles

The S.S. Somali (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...

Radio and Electronic Equipment In Life-Boats

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

With the exception of three short- range boats, all the Institution's life- boats, both in the active and in the reserve fleet, are equipped with M/F (medium frequency) radio-telephony.

The advantages of a life-boat...

Category: Articles