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The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Visitors at the Exhibition
The Mayor and Mayoress of Greenwich, Lady Kinahan, Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Kinahan, Mr. L. C. H. Cave, a member of the Institution's Committee of Management, and Mr. Frank Carr, director of the Museum (See page 109). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
Shoreline
THE MAIN SHORELINE office has now moved from Salisbury to the new Headquarters building at Poole. This has entailed the movement of records and equipment and changes in clerical staff.
While we are, of course, making every...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
Category: Articles
Royalty at Exmouth
The Duchess of Kent took over the wheel of Exmouth life-boat, City of Birmingham, during a brief visit to the town's life-boat station on 14th May. Coxswain Brian Rowsell, who stood beside her in the wheel-house, said she showed a...
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SAIL AWAY
Ever dreamed of sailing away to exotic shores? In a few easy steps you could be well on your way. To help convince you, we’ve enlisted solo circumnavigator and RNLI Governor Jeanne Socrates
BENEFITS OF...
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Sea Rescue: a Bird's-Eye View By Des Lavelle
LURCHING ABOUT on the deck of Valentia lifeboat, struggling to make sense of a simple piece of chartwork, it was shattering to hear the smooth delivery of the necessary accurate information over the radio from the Nimrod aircraft overhead....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1935
4. 4.55 a.m. 4. 11.15 a.m. 4. 11.20 a.m. 4. 4.33 p.m. 8. 5.0 p.m. 9. 11.30 a.m. 11. 7.52 a.m. 11.
11. 3.30 p.m.
4.37 p.m. 13. 10.25 a.m. 13. 3.15 p.m. 22. 9.5 p.m. ...
Category: Services
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
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