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Notes of the Quarter

Date: Summer 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 485

THE FOURTEENTH International Lifeboat Conference was formally opened by HRH Prince Bertil of Sweden on June 5 in Gothenburg. More than 50 papers on subjects of mutual interest were presented to delegates from 24 lifeboat societies from all...

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Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales

Date: February 1925

Volume: 26

Issue: 283

THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...

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National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...

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Healthspan

Date: Winter 2006

Volume: 60

Issue: 575

Healthspan nutrition for a healthy lifespan Improving the quality of your nutrition is the most important thing you can do to improve your health There are over 80 products in the Healthspan 'advanced nutrition' range. All of our...

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Drama in the dark

Date: Winter 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 610 Lifeboat Magazine Winter 2014

On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding

Helmsman...

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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor

Date: Winter 1975

Volume: 43

Issue: 451

THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...

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Book Reviews

Date: Summer 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 469

• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...

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In their element

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

Surfing is often a way of life for those brought up by the sea. It’s also become a tool for lifesaving. Claire Vandvik finds out about the joys and the dangers of the waves

Surfers were once dismissed as beach bums but now...

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Value of the Self-Righting Property In Life-Boats

Date: February 1872

Volume: 08

Issue: 83

IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...

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Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...

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