LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (83)
AUGUST 11TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
During an air battle an aeroplane had come down in flames, and the pilot was seen to drop into the sea by parachute, but he could not be found. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1904
Jan. 1.—Six fishermen rescued fifteen of the crew of the barque Faulconnier, of Dun- kirk, which was wrecked at Travara, near Courtmacsherry, in hazy weather, a strong E.S.E. wind and rough sea. The men had taken to their boats, but it was...
Category: Articles
Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
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Old Age and the Life-Boat Service
Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.
An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but...
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The New Dover Motor Life-Boat. Inaugural Ceremony By the Prince of Wales, K.G.
Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.
THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.
Category: Inaugurations
The RNLI and me: Ant Middleton
WHO IS ANT MIDDLETON?
Ant Middleton features in Channel 4’s SAS : Who Dares Wins, Mutiny and the forthcoming Escape. Born in Portsmouth and raised in France, Ant followed a career in the armed forces, eventually joining the Royal...
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The American Steamer Jonas Lie (1)
J ANUARY 9 T H - ANGLE, AND ST.
DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. Both lifeboats were called to the help of the American steamer Jonas Lie, which had been torpedoed, off Grassholme Island, but they were recalled as all her crew had...
These Two Whisky Bottles Contained Over £200 Collected By Customers of the White Hart Aldeburgh to Put Towards the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Appeal the Two Men About to Take a Short Cut to Emptyi
These two whisky bottles contained over £200 collected by customers of the White Hart, Aldeburgh, to put towards the Aldeburgh lifeboat appeal. The two men about to lake a short cut to emptying the bottles are (I.) John Driver and (r.)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Micky O'Donoughue (Centre) and the Cast of the Hunchback of Notre Dame'
Micky O'Donoughue (centre) and the cast of The Hunchback of Notre Dame' with some of the lottery tickets after the 44th lottery draw on 31 January 1989. With them are Mrs Richard Saunders, a member of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF
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The Russian Life-Boat Service
THE Russian Life-boat Society, of which the Empress is the Patron, has now 125 Life-boat Stations; of these 60 are on the river banks and 65 on the coast.
The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had in...
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