RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
THE President of the R.N.L.I., the Duke of Kent, said at the 148th annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 18th May, that the Institution rested on four great pillars, each of which was essential to its health and...
Category: Articles
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
Category: Articles
Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.
was...
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Category: Advertisement
Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth, has close contacts with the R.N.L.I., and when an essay competition on life-boatmen was held for members of the junior church there was a good response.
The following are extracts: 'The...
Category: Articles
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 5.15 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, it was reported that a small boat with an outboard motor had not returned from a fishing trip. Later it was confirmed that the boat was overdue. It had last been seen three miles...
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...
Mr. D. A. Acland, of East Grinstead, Sir John Brocklebank, of Mold, Flintshire, and Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., of Burley, Hampshire, have accepted co-option as members of the Committee of Management of the Royal...
Category: Committee