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The Thames Church Mission

Date: September 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 06

THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...

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Honours for RNLI people

Date: Spring 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 607 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2014

RNLI Clinical Operations Manager Paul Savage, who developed a pioneering casualty care course for lifesavers, was one of four of our people recognised in HM The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Paul (pictured above) – who...

Category: Articles

Ideal Home Exhibition

Date: Spring 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 468

EARL'S COURT LONDON, MARCH 6-31 FOR THE FIRST TIME, the RNL1 had a stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition this year. Modest in size, and situated on the balcony floor, it was a market stall, colourful with souvenirs and Shoreline display....

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Fishing Boats (1)

Date: May 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 248

As two fishing-boats belonging to the port I had not returned from fishing, and the wind was blowing hard with a very rough sea on the 24th December, the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched shortly after noon, in order to be in |...

Sea Festival

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Arbroath Sea Fest held over 16 and 17 August 1997 proved to be a huge success for RNLI fundraisers - donations totalled £1.300, with the sales outlet raising £550.

The glorious weather attracted some 10,000 people... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations

Date: Spring 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 365

Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.

A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...

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Heye P.

Date: Spring 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 472

Coaster on rocks A VESSEL on the rocks at Prawle Point was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by Prawle Point Coastguard at 2233 on Sunday December 16, 1979. Less than ten minutes later Salcombe's 47ft Watson...

Your Letters

Date: Winter 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 547

Lanzarote lifesavers I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use them to illustrate foreign lifeboats.

Michael Osbaldston South...

Category: Correspondence

Clifford's Improved Method of Lowering Boats at Sea

Date: January 1858

Volume: 04

Issue: 27

IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...

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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: August 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 101

XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.

The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.

THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...

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