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
February
Launches 34. Lives rescued 55.
FEBRUARY 5 T H . - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Management.
Thursday, 21st January, 192S.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, in the Chair.
Reported the resignation of Captain SELWYN H. DAY, C.B., D.S.O., R.N.R., from the Committee of...
Category: Committee
A Royal Reception
A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
Category: Meetings
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Curious Coincidence
In the course of the eloquent speech and earnest appeal which H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES made as President of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, at the London Life-boat Saturday Dinner on 1st May last, he said, " I am anxious to...
Category: Articles
Wreck Ashore
Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....
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Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
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Regulars
BOOKs From cargos of coffee and tobacco to the thrills of speedboat testing, from learning the ropes to total disaster - Carol Waterkeyn and Sam Price review four more titles to bring you closer to the sea Unless other ordering details are...
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Life-Boat Builders By Tradition
THE firm of J, Samuel White & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, has been building ships in the Isle of Wight for more than two and a half centuries. During the greater part of that time the firm has been closely associated with the Life- boat...
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Magic moments
They have helped Harry Potter out of a few scrapes on the big screen – but what real lifesaving antics have cinema’s favourite twins been getting up to?
Filmgoers have been under Harry Potter’s...
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