LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1932
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition was held this year for the twelfth time. The number of schools taking part in the competition was 2,249, as compared with 2,354 in 1931. The number of schools which took part in...
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The Recent Storms
OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....
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Oil As a Wave Smoother
The Shipping and Mercantile Gazette recently called attention in a leading article to the advisability of the use of oil during rough weather at sea under certain favourable conditions. They remarked that it was gratifying to observe that...
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Fig 3: (Left) Radar Scanner Has Been Moved to Port of After Cabin Top and Air Bag Roof Channel Bolted In Posit/On to Starboard Note Manifold Leading Under Channel and A
Fig. 3: (Left) Radar scanner has been moved to port of after cabin top, and air bag roof channel bolted in posit/on to starboard.
Note manifold leading under channel and, at its fore and aft ends, air inlets into... - View image in PDF
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Right Way Up' the Rnli Exhibition Held at the Science Musuem Kensington This Summer Was Opened By Jimmy Savile Obe He Is Seen (Right) With Richard Oakley
'Right Way Up', the RNLI exhibition held at the Science Musuem, Kensington, this summer, was opened by Jimmy Savile, OBE. He is seen (right) with Richard Oakley, MBE, (r.) designer of the first modern selfrighting lifeboat, the37ft... - View image in PDF
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1909
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
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Cowes Base - the Allen Centre
Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
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Cory Brothers & Co. Ltd
When Seconds count * . * YOUR CREWS WILL BE THANKFUL FOR THE WISE CHOICE OF ELLIOT LIFERAFTS ELLIOT inflatable liferafts are built from the highest quality materials and are assembled with skill and precision. The closest inspection is...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1907
Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...
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Girl Power
Mention the words 'Girl Power' and you probably think of the pop group, Spice Girls! So what has 'Girl Power' got to do with the RNLI? In the early days of the lifeboat service, women either helped to raise funds or to...
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