LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The shark-baiting, tank-commanding granny!
She has already driven a tank and swum with sharks in aid of the RNLI this year – and now 77-year-old Jean Shields wants to drive a high-speed racing car. Jean, President of the RNLI’s Troon Fundraising Branch, raised almost £500 for...
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The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats
FOE the sixth year running the fishwives of CuIIercoats have held their collection for the Institution on the occasion of the August road exercise and Launch I of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay, and | although, for the first time, they have...
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The Mumbles Lifeboat Dwarfed By Chebogue
The Mumbles Lifeboat Dwarfed By Chebogue.
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Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums at Dover, and at Wexford and Rosslare Harbour
Two life - boat stations celebrated their centenaries in 1938: Dover, Kent, and Wexford and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. In each case a vellum was presented by the Institu- tion, signed by the H.R.H. Duke of Kent, K.G., as President,...
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A Tank Oil Steamer The San Ricardo
On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...
The Admiralty Minesweeping Trawler Ethel Taylor
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Cooperative Bank
The COOPERATIVE BANK A Loan from I **•/ is as near as your phone o APR Specially negotiated rates for RNLI members Borrow any amount between £500-£15,000 Funds transferred directly to your bank account Monthly repayment LOAN £...
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