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A Handsome Pair!

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Two of the collectors from the B irmingham branch attracted the attention of shoppers in the City Centre by wearing RNLI equipment and collecting next to an Atlantic 21 lifeboat.

The two collectors were part of a large team... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Howard Biggs,

Date: Autumn 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 530

OCTOBER 1994 Howard Biggs, honorary secretary and treasurer of Broadstairs branch since 1952 and also box secretary from 1949. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1963, a Gold badge in 1974 and a bar to the Gold badge in 1985.

Category: Obituaries

Pulling a Fast One?

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Pulling a fast one? There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the RNLI trials team are looking for an alternative means of lifeboat propulsion and asked the Director to acheive 25 knots under oar! Brian Miles, right, is actually... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Lifeboats Go Green?

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

The world's first motor-sailing lifeboat? It would undoubtedly save fuel and probably be great fun for the crews, but could it manage the 32-knot service speed? Sadly, this isn't the latest product of the fertile minds of the Trials... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gratefully Remembered

Date: December 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 22

On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

1st July to 30th September.

Leaflets {or the Help of Honorary Secretaries and Collectors.

WE think that our Honorary Workers will like to have the following list of the leaflets (which have just been...

Category: Branches

Listings

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...

Category: Articles

Carmen

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.33 on the night of the 25th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Carmen of Groningen was ashore on the west side of Sulley Island....

Rivergate

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Skegness, Lincolnshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four survivors of the motor vessel Rivergate of Hull were on board the Inner Dowsing light- vessel and...

Marine Paintings

Date: January 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 438

British marine artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century helped the life-boat service in the latter half of the twentieth century through an exhibition of their paintings at the gallery of N. R. Omell, of Duke Street, St. James's,...

Category: Articles