LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Recycle and save lives!
Have you got old printer cartridges, mobile phones and gadgets that you no longer use? They could help keep our lifesavers trained and equipped. The Recycling Factory gives the RNLI a donation for every item successfully recycled and, to...
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Correspondence
The Editor, the Life-boat.
Dear Sir, On reading the March issue of the Journal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution I was perfectly thrilled with your article on the fiftieth anniversary in the history of...
Category: Correspondence
Last word
Emailers, letter writers, Facebook users and Tweeters have all been in touch to share their support. If you'd like to do the same, write to us using the details at the front of the magazine, or get involved with our social...
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Bose
The Bose Wave' radio/CD. When we designed the Wave* radio/CD, we spent over a year making it one of the smallest, most compact systems available. One that fits almost anywhere.
But despite all that, all anyone seems to...
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Lasting Legacies
The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.
Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...
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Golden Charter
GOLDEN CHARTER Pre-Paid Funeral Plans THE CARING APPRO THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to think about loved ones and what you'd like to leave them. Not the burden of funeral costs,...
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400 Hours' Labour
A MODEL of the 51-feet Barnett Strom- ness motor life-boat George Shee, which is stationed at Torbay, has been made by Mr. Charles Young of Dartmouth, and his staff, and by Alderman F.
Scardifield, also of Dartmouth. It...
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...
St. John
Wicklow. At 3.32 on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the coxswain learnt that a fishing boat was in difficulties about two miles north of the harbour. At 3.35 the life-boat /. W.
Archer was launched in a south-by-...
Mayflower
Dover, Kent.—At 5.7 on the after- noon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a boat appeared to be in difficulties four miles from Dover. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at...