LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1950
Persona Time of rescued from 1050. launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 5. 8.50 p.m. "I S.S. Turquoise, of Glasgow. Workington life-boat stood by „ 6. 11.15a.m. / vessel.
Category: Services
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Life-Boat Day In London. The Prince of Wales's Tour of the Depots
LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...
Category: Articles
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Centenary Celebration
Japanese Lifeboat centenary commemorated at conference By Lt Cdr Brian Miles Director of the RNLI In July 1924, representatives from eight overseas lifeboat societies met in London at the invitation of the RNLI for a conference which was...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS Shoreline has taken great strides forward. Our membership has grown faster than ever before, largely due to the support we are receiving from our members and, above all, from financial branches and guilds. We...
Category: Articles
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence
Maldon and District Branch Made a Collection Down the River Blackwater on Its Flag Day Last July D H Purnews Gaff Cutter Tamarisk Backed Up By Maldon Little Ship Club
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Belts on Board Our Merchant-Ships
IT is now thirteen years ago that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, called previously to that time the " NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK," seriously undertook and commenced the national work of...
Category: Articles
B.S. Colling
Owing to bad weather, the only fishing boat to put to sea on the morning of the 13th January was the B.S. Colling, with a crew of three. She did not return when expected, and, as the sea was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her safety.<...