LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G. Review of the Year's Work at the Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1938 65,677 H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
Review of the...
Category: Meetings
The Prince of Wales and the Life-Boat Service. Speeches of His Royal Highness at the Annual General Meeting on the 18th March, 1893
" As your chairman to-day it is my duty to move the first resolution, which is ' That the report now read be adopted, printed and circulated.' The last occasion on which I had the satisfaction of presiding at the Annual...
Category: Meetings
December Passage. The Journey of the St. Albans from Cowes to New Quay
By Commander E. W. Middleton, V.R.D., R.N.V.R., Western District Inspector of Life-boats BY some unfortunate chance, new lifeboats seem to make a habit of being ready for delivery during the winter months. But one can experience good weather...
Category: Articles
Guide Friendship I Is Launched at Aberdovey After Being Handed Over to the Institution By Mrs D Parker-Bowles Commonwealth Guide Commissioner Photograph By Cour
Guide Friendship I is launched at Aberdovey after being handed over to the Institution by Mrs. - View image in PDF
D. Parker-Bowles, Commonwealth Guide Commissioner. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Janet Walker. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New man at helm
The RNLI’s new Chief Executive Paul Boissier has been in post since September 2009. He tells the Lifeboat: ‘This job is all about stewardship.
In time I’ll need to hand over the charity in as good a shape as it is today....
Category: Articles
Flight Crews Back-Up Teams and Equipment on Display at Culdrose Including a Wessex (I) and Sea King (R) Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Culdrose
Flight crews, back-up teams and equipment on display at Culdrose, including a Wessex (I) and Sea King (r). photograph by courtesy of RNAS Culdrose. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Commission on the Loss of Life at Sea
THE " First Report" of this Royal Commission shows clearly the necessity for its appointment, for it contains authoritative evidence of an alarming waste of both life and property in the greatest source of the country's wealth...
Category: Articles
Lifeboatmen and Fishermen By Colin Ashford
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
Category: Articles
The Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., at Cromer. Naming Ceremony of Two Life-Boats
THE two new motor life-boats stationed at Cromer in 1934 and 1935 were named this year by the Right Hon.
Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., P.C., G.C.S.I., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.R, Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
Peter Jones China Ltd
THE ROYAL EVENT OF 1993 The 40th anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth IPs Coronation The Coronation D rv Plate Limited Edition 5000 The 2nd of June 1953 will always be remembered as the day H.M. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster...
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