LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The announcement of two new classes of lifeboat, the Trent and Severn on 10 December 1992, made the year something of a landmark for the RNLI. The introduction of even a single lifeboat class, let alone two, is an achievement far greater...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON 18th October the Motor Life-boat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, saved a life, by acting as an ambulance. A girl of fifteen had developed acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. There is no hospital in the Isles...
Category: Articles
The Prince of Wales and the English Freemasons
A SPECIAL Grand Lodge of the English Free- : masons was held on the 3rd January at Free- ! masons' Hall, London, to receive and consider | the Report of the Special Committee appointed by Grand Lodge on the 6th September last, on the...
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Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have already been arranged for the summer.
The dates, however, are subject to alteration. This list does not include a large number of places where days...
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The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
£ s. d.
40 14 0 _ _I H Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
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Category: Accounts
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Travel Offers Ltd
Free Hotel Accommodation all year round To order by phone call *At many hotels this offer is not available for some Bank Hols. Some hotels require a minimum stay of two nights and some may not take bookings for certain months e.g. some...
Category: Advertisement
Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
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Building Up to the Millennium
Lifeboats are often in the news, but their shore facilities receive much less of the limelight. In the first of series of articles on this hidden but significant aspect of the RNLI Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings takes a look at the...
Category: Articles