LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
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The Life-Boat Crew at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly
(Photograph taken by Mr. George F. Shee, Secretary of the Institution.). - View image in PDF
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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Open Days Poole Hq and Depot
Poole HQ and Depot JULY 19 TO 21 FOR THREE DAYS IN JULY, the Poole head office and depot buildings opened their doors wide to show RNLI supporters and the public at large exactly how the lifeboat service is run. This was the second time open...
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The Aberdeen Trawler Ben Arthur
TRAWLER DRIFTING At 6.17 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Ben Arthur was dragging her anchor and drifting on to the shore at Goat Islands in Stornoway Harbour, and that her...
George Crabbe's Borough By A. W. Hawkes
THE Suffolk Aldeburgh ('Aldeburc' of Domesday) —to which we must add 'on sea' to distinguish it from other Aldeburghs, of slightly different spellings, in Norfolk and Essex—lies right on the coast of the North Sea, four miles...
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Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the Rnli (Left) and the Managing Director of Laing's Trevor Berry
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, director of the RNLI, (left) and the managing director of Laing's, Trevor Berry, lay the highest section of concrete to mark the topping-out of the RNLI's new headquarters building. (Photo Southern Newspapers).<... - View image in PDF
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BOY RESCUED AFTER CLIFF FALL New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs between Llangranog and Yyns Lochtyn, and that...
Life-Boats on the Air. Broadcasts In 1949
Ix December, 1948, the secretary of the Institution, Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., broadcast a talk "Exploits of the old Sailing Life- boats." This talk was on the air the day after the motor life-boat St. Allans...
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