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Membership News
Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Maximise your Membership The active membership of the Institution continues to grow, with the latest figures showing almost 28,000 Governors and some 140,000 Shoreline members.
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Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, April 14th, 1932.
Sir GODFKEY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the death of Sir William Priestley, President of the Bradford Branch, and a Vice- President of the Institution since 1926, and...
Category: Committee
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 646 and 647, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January and February, 1969, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
oar'd the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead ; Helpless in that hour of danger, On the gallant vessel sped.
Sails were riven,—masts were broken By the tempest's fearful power; Fruitless seemed...
Category: Poetry
Lifeboat Services
West Division Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone...
Category: Services
It's Late It's Dark and It's Raining But the Oakley Is Ashore and the Princess Royal Is on Her Carriage for the First Time So All We Have to Do Now Is Launch Her Again A
It's late, it's dark and it's raining, but the Oakley is ashore and The Princess Royal is on her carriage for the first time. So all we have to do now is launch her again and then retrieve her before we go home to bed…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Former Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21
A former Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 lifeboat pictured on exercise near the west breakwater, which can be seen in the background. At the time of the Vellumwinning service it was almost submerged by breaking... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tale of Two Towns
Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of the Highlights of the Splendid 150th Anniversary Banquet In the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on October 11 1974 Was a Piccolo Solo By Ban
One of the highlights of the splendid 150th anniversary banquet in the Painted Hall at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on October 11, 1974, was a piccolo solo by Band Corporal R. O.
Howgill, Royal Marines. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition
THE third year of the Essay Competition has brought a number of interesting and very readable essays, and although scarcely up to the excellent standard of the first two years, it can be said that only in a few cases did they fail to show an...
Category: Articles