LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-eighth Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 29th March, 1922, at 3 P.M., the Right Hon Stanley Baldwin, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, in...
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Focus on Dungeness
A visit to the Kentish life-boat station and its crew is described in what is hoped will become a regular series on life-boat stations by Margaret Peter.
The men of Dungeness who form the life-boat crew are proud of their...
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Income and Expenditure Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1971
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1971 Less: Proceeds from sale of boathouse BALANCE MET FROM (1970 TRANSFERRED TO) RESERVE FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE (Notes 1 and 6) 1971 INCOME Subscriplions, Donations, etc.<...
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Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
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Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
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Mozambique Mission
You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.
CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
John Devereux, 43, of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station joined the crew in 1968 and served as assistant motor mechanic in the years from April 1974 to January 1982, when he was appointed coxswain.
On Christmas Eve 1977, Kilmore...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1891
THE MOST HONORABLE THE MARQUIS OP HARTINGTON, M.P., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Most Hon. The generously given to the Service by the Local Honorary Secretaries, Treasurers and Committees.
Seconded by The...
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Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
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