LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck of the Deutschland
ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
j LIFEBOAT STOOD ON TRANSOM BY BREAKING SEA Seventeen saved from 75ft yacht aground in gale and 20ft breakers Two Hayling Island lifeboatmen, Roderick James and Frank Dunster, have been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for their part in...
Category: Services
Bolinders Company Ltd
When one MUST lead For the tough, tricky work of inshore rescue only the best in performance and the utmost in reliability are good enough.
That is why the Volvo Penta Aquamatic petrol and diesel engines fitted to the fast...
Category: Advertisement
Windsor Products,
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Category: Advertisement
People and Places
Listen very carefully. . . as Rene draws the lotteryGorden Kaye who stars as Rene in television's 'Allo 'Allo, drew the winning tickets of the 74th lifeboat lottery at Poole on 31 July 1996.
Brian Miles, RNLI...
Category: Articles
Shield for Best Wreck Service
MR. ERNEST MARPLES, Minister of Transport, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service for the year 1959/60 jointly to the Rattray Head and Fraserburgh life-saving appliance companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of...
Category: Awards
The Fundraisers
Jazz on a different day Cheltenham branch has recently circulated some 1,000 copies of its busy fundraising diary-but unfortunately the date of the Jazz train event, originally scheduled for 27 July 1996, has had to be changed to 3 August...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1963
1962 £ 240,845 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS.— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Boulmer, Caister, Cullercoats, Hastings, Howth, Kirk- cudbright, Llandudno, Longhope, Lowestoft, Sal- combe, Seaham...
Category: Accounts
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd April, 1868.—THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
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JUNE 14TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
Two men had been reported in difficulties on some rocks, but no one was found there and probably seals had been mistaken for men. - Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..