Above: The old Victoria Cafe - once again sen/ing as North Berwick lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
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Annual General Meeting Thank you for the invitation to yesterday's presentation of awards and annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall. I found it a most moving occasion.
For years I have lived alongside a famous...
Category: Correspondence
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
With deep regret we record the following deaths: November 1995 Mrs Maggie May (Finnic) Howells MBE, a founder member of Tenby ladies' lifeboat guild. In 1939 she was chairman of the guild and later president from 1975 to 1994. Mrs...
Category: Obituaries
THOSE OF OUR MEMBERS who are lucky enough to be boat owners will no doubt be enjoying the start of the season with, this year, its unusually warm and sunny spring weekends. We wish you good sailing.
Now that the membership...
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JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 53 times and rescued 15 lives.
t [BOAT FOUND AFTER MESSAGE FROM HELICOPTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at...
Category: Services
Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
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Launches 111. Lives Rescued 124.
Services to vessels in distress through enemy action are marked • •• Other services arising out of the zcor are marked •.
November Meeting.
Walton and...
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Contents Volume XLIV Number 455 Notes of the Quarter, by The Editor Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition Lifeboat Services International Boat Show ...
Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman of the Institution 111 112 113 119...
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Further developments in the Communications and Navigational Aids of a Modern Lifeboat By Cdr KEN WOLLAN QBE RN Staff Officer (Communications) RNLI MY PREDECESSOR, Lieutenant Ernest Gough, wrote an excellent article which appeared in the...
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