LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...
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Why P-Pick on a P-Penguin?
The connection between heavyweight boxer Frank Bruno, a penguin, 'District Nurse' Nerys Hughes and Humber lifeboat coxswain Brian Bevan was explained at London Zoo on 17 September, when they were all involved in the launch of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes and News
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...
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A Record Number of Visitors to This Year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, Visited the R.N.L.I. Stand Between 4th-14th January, 1967
A record number of visitors to this year's International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, visited the R.N.L.I. stand between 4th-14th January, 1967. Principal exhibits were the new 44-foot steel life-boat John F. Kennedy, open for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1906
Jan. 11.—Voted the Silver Medal to Mr.
WILLIAM PENROSE, and the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum and framed, to his brothers Messrs. THOMAS and HENRY PENROSE for their very gallant but unsuccessful attempt to...
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1936, and Numbers of the Fleets
DUEING 1936 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 45 British vessels.
Three of these services were by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 2 by Holland, 3 by Iceland, 1 by Sweden, and 35 by the United...
Category: Services
(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537 Stationed at Blackpool Looking Aft With Deck Removed Forward of Fuel Tank Bays Either Side of Centreline Division Floors Are Shaped to R
(Left) Hull of Atlantic 21 B537, stationed at Blackpool, looking aft with deck removed. Forward of fuel tank bays, either side of centreline division, floors are shaped to receive flexible trim tanks. Outboard of fuel tank compartments, port... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats
Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported the much lamented death on the 2nd instant of His Grace ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth DUKE...
Category: Committee
The Day of a DOS By Joan Davies
NOVEMBER, BY TRADITION, is the time for the annual conference of the district organising secretaries, the liaison officers between the RNLI's voluntary financial branches and guilds in the field and its headquarters at Poole. At the...
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