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Blooming Marvellous

Date: Spring 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 564

It covers a massive 11 acres of land; features over 60 gardens and 150 floral exhibitions; and is held in the heart of Chelsea, miles from the coast. So what exactly does the greatest flower show on earth have to do with saving lives at sea?...

Category: Articles

Daring innovation

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: November 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 174

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An American Superfortress Aeroplane

Date: Summer 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 355

Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...

Your Letters

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.

At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...

Category: Correspondence

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: February 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 143

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Your Letters

Date: Autumn 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 526

Still at work I read with interest the account of the rescue off Moelfre on 26 August (THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1993 issue).

The MFV you referred to, which took in tow the second casualty, was Manx Voyager - the ex-Watson class...

Category: Correspondence

Trinity House

Date: Summer 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 457

FOR MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS the Corporation of Trinity House, with its headquarters on Tower Hill, London, has been concerned with the safety of shipping, the progress of navigation and the welfare of seamen. Despite its venerable age,...

Category: Articles

Rnli News

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

NEWS POINT FIRST AMONG EQUALS Those who find themselves explaining how the RNLI operates, how it is organised and how it is funded are very often asked, "What do other countries do? Is the RNLI unique?". The answer could have been...

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Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Spring 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 472

Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...

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