LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Building Into the Millennium
RNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings takes his coastal voyage from Fishguard to SillothThe first half of 2001 was one of the busiest periods ever for the RNLI shoreworks team. Before setting sail northwards from Fishguard, a quick fook...
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Shoreline
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STRONSAY, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat Station at Stronsay in order to strengthen the Life-boat service in the Orkney Islands.
The new Life-boat is of the Watson type,...
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Twickenham and District Branch Held a 'Thank Yon Evening' for All Their Friends and Helpers at the British Motor Yacht Club Last November After a Cheese Salad And
Twickenham and District Branch held a 'Thank Yon Evening' for all their friends and helpers at the British Motor Yacht Club last November. After a cheese salad and wine supper came entertainment by international cabaret artists Joy... - View image in PDF
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Porthcawl, Glamorganshire - At 4.20 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the crew of the IRB heard a police radio message that four youths were stranded on a rock. The IRB was launched at 4.21 in a light southerly wind and a moderate ground sea. It was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1931
Persons Time of rescued from 1931. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 7.15 a.m. S.S. Nurtureton, of Newcastle. Dungeness No. 1 Pulling and Sail- ing Life-boat stood by vessel.
„ 12. 5.0 p.m. Motor fishing...
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Humberside Police's Fivestrong Mounted Section Has Been Patrolling Local Beaches and Inland Waterways for the Past Three Years As Part of Their General Duties Last S
Humberside police's fivestrong mounted section has been patrolling local beaches and inland waterways for the past three years as part of their general duties. Last summer an emergency lifeline was added to their... - View image in PDF
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Good-Bye to a Life-Boat By R W Frazer
WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
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Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of March, 1957. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings