LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bird of Freedom
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 16th October a fishing boat was observed to be on the Mole Rocks to the eastward of the breakwater ; at the time it was blowing a moderate gale from S.E.
with a rough sea. Without...
The Running:
• The running: crossing the line after 26 miles and 385 yards is Cliff Deane (No 8945), the author's husband, who was one of the stalwart band of RNLI supporters who ran the London Marathon to raise money for the lifeboats . .... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 23rd day of March, 1882, The Eight Hon. The LORD MAYOR of LONDON in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
July (1)
CLONTARF, Co. DUBLIN. On the evening of the 2nd of June, 1945, a sailing boat from the Clontarf Boat Club capsized north of North Bull. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. Four sea scouts,...
Category: Services
Town & County
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp1 Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
Category: Advertisement
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1935
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fifteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,511. an increase of 10 on last year.
Of this...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN the year 1852 this Institution adopted a new description of life-boat: many of the boats which it at that time possessed were worn out, and the result of the-competition for a prize offered in the previous year by His Grace the Duke of...
Category: Articles
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JUNE 26TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Flares probably washed overboard from R.A.F. launches had ignited when they struck rocks, and had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £10 2s..
Shoreline's Bmw Car Competition Was Won By Squadron Leader P L Whitaker (I) the Car Was Presented to Him at Poole a Few Days After the Draw By Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston (R) a D
Shoreline's BMW car competition was won by Squadron Leader P. L. Whitaker (I.). The car was presented to him at Poole a few days after the draw by Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston (r.), a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books
• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...
Category: Articles