LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Portugal
By VICE-ADMIRAL HYPACIO DE BRION, Inspector and Secretary of the Instituto de Soccorros y Naufragos.UNTIL 1892, Portugal, although a mari-j time country, situated on the western l extreme of the European Continent, and:, on the route for all...
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News from the Branches
list of New Branches.
The following new Branches have been formed since the list published in Life Lifeboat, for March 1926.
NORTHERN DISTRICT.
Branch. Honorary...
Category: Branches
The Fundraisers
Rowing raisers No apologies for featuring RNLI fundraisers the Hythe Hookers again - these ladies are always seen to be up to something intriguing! On New Year's Day they dressed up as cops and robbers and took part in the annual Maldon...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st March 1878
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd Sept., 1868. Sir EDWARD PER- ROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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The Crew
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...
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The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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The Fundraisers
Yankie Doodle Dandy Children attending Lakenheath American Elementary school at RAF Lakenheath ran laps for four days in support of the RNLI.
Nearly 1,300children took part in theevent and raised £4,353 in sponsorship...
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The Saint
LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON.—A schooner, The Saint, of Euncorn, bound from France for Portmadoc with hay, straw, and ballast, having been dismasted off The Smalls in a N.W. gale on the 5th January, was taken in tow by a large steamer; but on the...