LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
DUNGARVON. — A life-boat station has been established at Dungarvon, in County Waterford, and a 30 ft., single-banked, selfrighting boat, on the Institution's plan, together with a good carriage, has been provided by the Society, a good...
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Signals for Pilots
Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the ISth section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
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Nestlea and Dereske (2)
NOVEMBER 18- 20TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked by...
An American Superfortress Aeroplane (3)
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...
Bookshelf
Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
PATRONESS HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
VICE PATRONESS — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS...
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HALF A CENTURY OF FUNDRAISING
The tale starts back in the 1960s, when two inspired RNLI volunteers were enjoying a Fred. Olsen cruise …
When supporters Howard and Poppy Bell encouraged fellow guests to help the RNLI during their holiday, the...
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Richard Dimbleby's Appeal
[On Sunday the 21st of February, J954, the B.B.C. broadcast the following appeal by Mr. Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E., in the Home Service. It is reproduced by kind permission of the B.B.C.] I THINK it may surprise many of...
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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night By Jilly Cooper
Last winter JILLY COOPER visited {Hastings lifeboat station and recorded her impressions in her own inimitable wayI'VE ALWAYS thought the lifeboats the most romantic of charities. A lump comes to my throat when I think of the courage and...
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Books
• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
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