LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Charter
YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS, HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to your Once you've paid for your plan, by single payment or family about when you 're gone? If they don't want to listen, flexible...
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Spurn Life-Boat Crew (Bradford's Own) As Guard of Honour to the Prince of Wales
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Bradford on 30th May, the Spurn Lifeboat Crew whose new Motor Boat is being provided out of the special fund raised in Bradford, and is to be named after the city played a prominent part in the welcome given...
Category: Articles
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
Ships Which "Pass By on the Other Side."
an act of common humanity at what would seem a trifling cost ? The reasons operating on the mind of the man who thus " passes by on the other side " are these: public journals accounts given by sailors j l - That the loss of...
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Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved 1,704 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need £3'Am every...
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Father of forecast
Charles Darwin’s fame obscures the lifetime’s work of an equally gifted pioneer. Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle on that legendary voyage, was an extraordinary scholar, scientist and philanthropist – and a force behind the RNLI’s...
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Launches
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Category: Services
Over 70 Miles to the Rescue
THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occa- sion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occa- sion she...
Category: Services
A Cheque for £100000 the Biggest He Had Ever Had Received for the Rnli Was Handed to Commander Swann By Mr Roy Bailhache Chairman of the Jersey Branch: It
A cheque for £.100,000, the biggest he had ever had received for the RNLI, was handed to Commander Swann by Mr Roy Bailhache, chairman of the Jersey branch: it will pay for Jersey's new 44' Waveney lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Safety In Numbers
Congratulations! Thanks to the hard work and dedication of the RNLI's supporters the lifeboat service is now on an extremely sound financial footing, and looks set to continue that way. Twenty years ago things were far from rosy, but...
Category: Articles