LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radar Was First Installed In a Lifeboat 1963 the Boat Being Stationed at Yarmouth In the Isle of Wight. the Cost of the Set Was Largely Paid for By a Fund Started By Admir
'Radar was first installed in a lifeboat in 1963, the boat being stationed at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. The cost of the set was largely paid for by a fund started by admirers of Joseph Conrad as a memorial to the great writer'... - View image in PDF
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The Duke of Edinburgh Took a Keen Interest In the Experimental I.R.B. Which Has Been Constructed By the Boys, When He and the Queen Paid a Visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June.
The Duke of Edinburgh took a keen interest in the experimental I.R.B., which has been constructed by the boys, when he and the Queen paid a visit to Atlantic College, Glamorgan, on 25th June. He is seen here with Commander D.G.Wicksteed, R.N... - View image in PDF
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The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
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The Royal National Life-Boat Institution and the International Exhibition of 1862
OUR Great Exhibition—nay, the World's Great Exhibition—is open to the world's view at last. T'he most numerous, the grandest collection of the useful works of man that was ever brought together within the walls of a single...
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Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution
Donations under £10 are omitted after having been twice inserted.
CONTENTS.
ALDBOROUGH AND THORPE.BB.
ARDMORE BRANCH .
ABERDOVEY BRANCH AINMOUTH BRANCH...
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The Bird of Dawning
The Bird of Dawning
by John Masefield
Review by
Carol Waterkeyn
The Bird of Dawning is a classic from 1933, recently republished by the National Maritime Museum with an introduction...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1929
Time of 1929. Launching.
Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.
1. 2.40p.m.
„ 2. 10.0 a.m.
„ 2. 3.15p.m.
„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.
9. 11.25...
Category: Services
A Bronze Medal Service By the Stromness Motor Life-Boat
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from Birsay that a vessel was in distress...
Category: Medals
Services of Life-Boats
APPLEDORE, BIDEFORD.—On the 9th October, 1860, the schooner Druid, of Aberystwith, was driven ashore on Bideford bar. The Appledore life-boat, belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, was quickly latunhed through a high surf,...
Category: Services
Ths Beautiful Setting of Longstock Water Gardens Is Set to Raise Funds for the RNLI
Ths beautiful setting of Longstock Water Gardens is set to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs