LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How Selling Souvenirs and Gifts Buys Lifeboats
THE RNLI has been selling souvenirs for well over half a century. The word 'souvenir' indicates what the main purpose originally was.
Small items which were expected to appeal to visitors to lifeboat houses were put...
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Obituaries
Reigate and Redhill branch has suffered the loss of its president and both vice-presidents in less than a year: Cdr J. D. Walters, RN, was chairman during the 1939 to 1945 war and was subsequently president. George A. Hodgkins, a...
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Ship on Fire
THE telephone rings long and loud ; time 5.25 A.M., 22nd March, 1937. I hasten to answer it and am informed by the coastguard that Seaforth Radio has given them a message that the s.s.
Marie Moller was on fire ten miles...
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Here and There
SUPPORT CONTINUES TO COME in from Amateur Swimming Association clubs for our appeal to organise sponsored swims to raise funds for the RNLI. To help clubs who arrange their programmes well in advance the swim can be arranged at any time over...
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Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
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The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
Lottery
Lifeboat Lottery The £1M barrier has been broken! The Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery brought in more than £1M, making the final income for the year £3.9M. This is a magnificent total and more than half as much again as that for...
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Armistice Day, 1931
LAST year, for the first time, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat was unable to take part in the Armistice Day Service on llth November. She was called out on service at 1.30 in the morning, and did not return for twelve hours.* In...
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Income and Expenditure.—1st April, 1852, to 31st March, 1853
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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