LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
Our Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund have now completed their first year of work and are issuing their first Annual Report. We have read it with much interest and are satisfied that its contents will afford eminent...
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Words: Anna Burn
Photos: RNLI/(Harrison Bates, Nigel Millard, Neal Somerville)
AGM ROUND-UP
Our 2018...
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Some Special Gifts
£22,000 from an Anonymous Donor.
A BANKNOTE for £1,000 sent in a regis- tered envelope with the message " One thousand pounds enclosed for the National Life-boat Institution," and then, underneath, "...
Category: Donations
A Voyage of Two Motor Life-Boats
AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...
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A Dutch Life-Boat Service
THOSE who were in London during the centenary celebrations of the Institution in July, 1924, will remember seeing on the Thames the Dutch Twin-screw Motor Life-boat Brandaris, which is just two inches longer than our largest type—the 60-foot...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Carol Singers
LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.
They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...
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Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the heavy demand on the space in this number made by the report of the Annual Meeting, the Essay Competition, and News from the Branches, it has been necessary to hold over several articles, which will appear in the next number....
Category: Articles
Mabel
In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...
Falke
At 7.20 A.M. on the llth January rockets were observed in the direction of the Cross Sand light- vessel, and while the crew of the Life- boat were being assembled, a message was received by wireless telegraphy stating that a vessel was...