LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Charter
GOLDEN HARTER FUNERAL PLANS The only plan recommended by the National Society of Allied & Independent Funeral Directors HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your family about when you're gone? If they don't want to listen, it's...
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Anchor man
There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...
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Functional Clothing
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Nostalgia Direct (DEPT. LB1)
AVAILABLE ON 2 TAPES OR 2 CDs BANDS OF THE uriJONI ARMY 40 ALL TIME FAVOURITES The sight of the familiar blue uniforms of a Salvation Army Band in a residential street on a Sunday morning is part of the British scene.
Most...
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Brian King, a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, with three non-working models he has made, two for the RNLI and one for himself, of Margate's new 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38). Built mainly of GRP, they took
Brian King, a member of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, with three non-working models he has made, two for the RNLI and one for himself, of Margate's new 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38). Built mainly of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News and Views
Top coxswains Bill Cargill, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat and Harold Jones, retired coxswain of Beaumaris lifeboat have been honoured by their local communities for their hard work on behalf of the lifeboat service - Bill has been named 1996...
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One of the Highlights of the Splendid 150th Anniversary Banquet In the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on October 11 1974 Was a Piccolo Solo By Ban
One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and me: Alexander McCall Smith
When bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith isn’t penning adventures set in Scotland and Botswana, he plots his own dramatic course on the water …
You published five books in 2015 alone – how do you manage to be so...
Category: Articles
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...