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Sir Philip Hay KC VO TD,
Sir Philip Hay KC VO TD, an honorary life governor of the RNLI. Sir Philip Hay was private secretary to HRH Pricess Marina, Duchess of Kent when she was president of the Institution..
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
Category: Services
Work for Mosquitoes
Whan the building of life-boats came almost to a standstill at the end of 194°, the Institution's own machine-shop began to make munitions of war.
At first it made ordnance fittings. In the middle of 1941 it was...
Category: Articles
Below: a Rail Traveller Reaches for His Wallet Urged on By Brian Johnston, the Broadcaster, Whowas Collecting for the RNLI at Paddington Station.
Below: A rail traveller reaches for his wallet urged on by Brian Johnston, the broadcaster, whowas collecting for the RNLI at Paddington station. Photo The Times. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
Card Collecting: Some Notes on Charitable People. By a New Life-Boat Worker
I HAVE learnt several things about my fellow men and women which have interested me very much since, some months ago, I undertook always to have one of the Prince of Wales's Life-boat Collecting Cards with me wherever I went. I think...
Category: Donations
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Changing Times
Debut of the Mersey fast carriage boatThe RNLl's latest class of lifeboat was named the Mersey when the new, fast carriage-launched lifeboat was unveiled at a special press launch at Hastings lifeboat station on 14...
Category: Articles
I FLOATED TO LIVE
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles