LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Electrical Communication on the Coast for Lifesaving Purposes
THE resolution of the House of Commons so unanimously passed last Session at the instance of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, on the motion of its Chairman, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., relative to the establishment of a...
Category: Articles
(Above) Forty and More Entrants Set Off on Sunday October 4 for Southend-On-Sea Ladies' Guild's Second Annual Fancy Dress Sponsored Bicycle Ride Along the Seafront Fro
(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1897-98
WRECK CHART s—,r FOR THE VEAB ( 1897-98.
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Category: Charts
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 6
AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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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...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1884
1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF ARGYLL, KG., K.T.
Seconded by Admiral of the Fleet The Hon. SIR HENRY KEPPEL, G.C.B.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, printed, and...
Category: Meetings
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd September, 1858. Captain LAMBERT PERROTT, in the Chair.
. Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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2012: A Jubilee year!
We’re proud to call HM The Queen the RNLI’s Patron. In this, her Diamond Jubilee year, we’re celebrating extraordinary commitment – Her Majesty’s commitment to the RNLI, our volunteers’ commitment to saving lives at sea, and your commitment...
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Thanks for Woollen Comforts.
The Institution is very grateful to the Merchant Navy Comforts Service, the Friends of the Fighting Forces and the Red Cross Comforts Depot far their many gifts of sea-boot stockings, woollen helmets, jerseys, socks, gloves and scarves....
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