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Mermaid Marine Engines
If the RNLI choose the Mermaid...
...why don't YOU? Mermaid Mermaid Type 595 (FORD 2704C) marine diesel propulsion engine.
Built to the Royal National Life-boat Institution's strict specification...
Category: Advertisement
School Adopts Whitstable IRB
Following the sponsored walk last November, there was a presentation ceremony at Walford School, Ealing, early this year to hand over to the R.N.L.I.
a cheque for £1,017 11s.—the proceeds from the walk and other small...
Category: Correspondence
Sheringham's Salvation
Sheringham's Salvation Worldwide leader of the Salvation Army, General Eva Burrows, visited Sheringham on 29 September for the centenary celebrations of the Sheringham Corps, and one of her calls was at the local lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Abandoned ship
Five French fishermen took to their liferaft in the early hours of Tuesday 8 March when their 17m trawler Cap Lizard ran aground half a mile from Alderney. The island’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker...
Category: Articles
In Retirement Services
There are no monthly repayments with the Equity Advance Plan1 A tax-free cash lump sum Option of a guaranteed monthly income Continue to live in your own home Still provide for your family in your will You know up front the proportion that...
Category: Advertisement
With courage, nothing is impossible
Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...
Category: Articles
Home on the Beach
RNLI lifeguards on Cornwall’s Fistral Beach finished the season with a brand new base.
Previously, the lifeguards on one of the UK’s busiest beaches were working from metal storage containers (above). Now, they have a...
Category: Articles
Profiles
FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.
Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...
Category: Articles
Vrede (1)
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
THE Institution was represented in the Lord Mayor's Show, on 10th November, by a Life-boat and crew drawn by atractor. The description as it appeared in the programme of the show was :—• " The Ellen & Margaret of Seattle...
Category: Articles