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Brian H Williams Marine Model Artist

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

The Gift or Presentation with a difference! Uncannily accurate miniature models and will plaques of Yachts, Sailing Barges, Lifeboats and other vessels.

Modek-Completely detailed scale replicavwith crews, mounted on...

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News

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Two Gold Medals Readers may remember mention in the winter 2003/04 issue of the Lifeboat of an appeal to provide a statue to the late Die Evans MBE. Thanks to the generosity of many, the dream became a reality in November 2004 when HRH...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calen- dar.

The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Whitby No. 1 life- boat leaving harbour on the 15th of...

Category: Advertisement

Life-Boat Day In Greater London

Date: November 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 304

The "Splendid" Poor.

LIFE-BOAT Day was held throughout Greater London on 20th May, except in Baling, where it was held on 27th September. The Day was organized by the Central London Women's Com- mittee of...

Category: Articles

Bonne Sante

Date: December 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 374

Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...

Prize-Winning Essay

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

THE following essay was adjudged the best in a competition organised by the Institution and open to boys and girls up to the age of eleven in Great Britain and Ireland. It was written by Winefride Claire Davies, of the Old Colwyn County...

Category: Articles

A Boat

Date: August 1901

Volume: 18

Issue: 201

ARDROSSAN, AYRSHIRE. — On Saturday, 26th January, four men put off in a boat and proceeded to Horse Island, which is about a mile and a half distant from Ardrossan harbour, for the purpose of shooting wild fowl. While they were on the island...

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 56

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...

Category: Articles

Darling facts

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 in her grandparents’ cottage in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of Thomasin and William Darling.

William was Lighthouse Keeper on Brownsman Island. Grace and her eight...

Category: Articles

Duenna

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — In the evening of the 7th of August, 1948, a Dutch yacht, the Duenna, an auxiliary ketch, with twin screws, of 140 tons, was anchored outside the harbour.

She had six on board, including...