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Friends of the RNLI: The Lifeboat Fund

Date: Summer 2018

Volume: 61

Issue: 624 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2018

Civil servants around the UK are celebrating 150 years of fundraising for the RNLI. And they’re doing so in style, having funded their 53rd lifeboat: a brand new Shannon class due to be built for Wells, Norfolk, in 2021. The Lifeboat Fund is...

Category: Articles

The Mayor of Dunstable

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

The Mayor of Dunstable was the guest of honour at the Dunstable branch pie, punch and carols event. The Toddington Band (pictured above) gave their time free of charge and the committee members made the pies and the punch. A most enjoyable... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Life-Boat

Date: May 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 148

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat

Date: May 1890

Volume: 14

Issue: 156

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...

Category: Articles

The Fund Raisers

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...

Category: Articles

The Name's Bond...

Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Lost Man: the Damaged Boat.

Date: March 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 15

The man who was lost was Benjamin Clark, the bowman and signalman.

He had served in the life-boat for 25 years, and his father and brother had each been coxswain. His widow has been pensioned by the Institution as if her...

Category: Articles

Arranmore

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL On the 7th December, 1940, the Arranmore life-boat rescued the eighteen survivors of the S.S. Stolwijk, of Rotterdam.

COXSWAIN JOHN BOYLE was awarded the gold medal.

MOTOR MECHANIC...

Category: Medals

A Boat (3)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

NOVEMBER 10TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.

Just before seven in the evening a message was received from the representative of a salvage company which was engaged in breaking up the wreck of the S.S. Marie Chandris, off Amsterdam...

The Crew of the New Arranmore Lifeboat

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

The crew of the new Arranmore lifeboat were able to demonstrate their skills to a large crowd at Killybegs, Co Donegal, during the town's festival last summer. An air-sea rescue display was staged involving a simulated trawler fire,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs